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Frieze from Bin Tepe with grazing deer, British Museum, B 270 (1889,1021.2). (Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.) -
Frieze from Bin Tepe with grazing deer, back. (Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.)
Frieze with Grazing Deer
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 230
- Date
- 600-550 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- London, British Museum, B270
- Museum Inventory No.
- B270
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BM 1889,1021.2
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Architectural Relief, Animal
- Site
- Bin Tepe
- Findspot
- Found in 1882 by G. Dennis in one of the tumuli at Bin Tepe; came to British Museum 1889.
- Description
- The square joints at the sides are preserved. The flat moulding is similar to but thinner than that above the relief on Cat. 231 (Fig. 401). In Cat. 230, it runs horizontally below the frieze as a ground line. The relief shows a row of three grazing deer walking to r. with their heads lowered. The animals have large ears but no horns, fairly long full tails, and plump bodies. The large eyes are circumscribed by incised double lines. Pryce does not see the relief as belonging to the same piece as Cat. 231; he suggests a possibly "pre-Croesan" date, which Tuchelt wrongly denies.
- Condition
White marble.
Slab broken off below; bed above preserved.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.17; L. 0.405.
- Comments
- Cf. also the coins of Phanes, Weidauer, Probleme Frühen Elektronprägung, 62-63, pl. 5:39,40.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Pryce, Catalogue Sculpture BM, 101, fig. 165, A. H. Smith, Catalogue Sculpture BM I, 24, no. 23; Barnett, Nimrud Ivories, 18, fig. 20; Akurgal, Kunst Anatoliens, 156, fig. 107; Sardis I, 9, 12. Tuchelt, Archaischen Skulpturen Didyma, 126, no. L 73b-c; 185, nn. 90, 91.
- Author
- NHR