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    Stele with horsemen relief, cut from a Doric column, overview. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
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    Side view featuring column fluting. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
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    Stele with horsemen relief, cut from a Doric column, drawing and section. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

Süvari Kabartmalı Stel, Dorik Sütundan Kesilmiş

Dönem
2nd-1st C. BC, Hellenistik
Müze
Manisa, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi
Müze Envanter No.
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
NoEx75.004
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Heykel
Heykelin Türü
Cenaze Kabartması, İnsan Figürü, Hayvan
Yerleşim
Mersindere
Bulunduğu Yeri
Found near Mersindere, 3 km. from Sardis, March 1975. Brought by guard Ali Riza Atsan; the finder had thrown the piece into a riverbed.
Tanım

The stele is made from nearly half of a large Doric column with four arrises preserved. The interridge distance is ca. 0.08. Between two trees is a horseman galloping to r. Holding the reins in his l. hand, he turns his head slightly back. It is not clear what he held in the raised r. hand. The cloak thrown over his shoulder waves behind his r. arm. Against the tree on the l. appears a small chubby figure, very poorly preserved, in near frontal pose and moving to l. It was cloaked and may be the usual small groom seen on such stelai. On the top of the column at the edge is a mason’s mark (H. 0.025).

The stele belongs to a well-known class of late Hellenistic funerary monuments. The lively rhythm, and the workmanship competent though sketchy, would be consistent with late Hellenistic “Pergamene” rather than Roman Imperial style.

Condition

Marble, reddish accretion.

Piece broken off at top where stele was fastened from above, perhaps set within wall. Entire surface of the human figures and horse chiseled off, apparently intentionally.

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Kaynakça
Published: Hanfmann-Mellink, AJA 1976, 281, pl. 51:23.
Yazar
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