Relief with dancing warriors
Marble.Neo-Attic work of the first half of the 1st cent. BCE after an Athenian relief of the second half of 4th cent. BCE. Inv. No. 321.Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 66Photo by Ilya Shurygin
Relief with dancing warriors.
Marble.
Neo-Attic work of the first half of the 1st cent. BCE after an Athenian relief of the second half of 4th cent. BCE.
Neo-Attic work of the first half of the 1st cent. BCE after an Athenian relief of the second half of 4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 321.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 66
(Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala delle muse, 66).
Description:
The warriors, wearing helmets with long feathers, are performing the Pyrrhic. This dance, possibly of Cretan origin, consisted of beating rythmically with one’s sword on the next man’s shield. The model for the Neo-Attic work, dating to the first half of the 1st century BC, is probably a very well known Athenian relief that had already been copied in the second half of the first century BC (inv. 321).
Credits:
© 2013. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
© 2013. Details: museum annotation
© 2013. Details: museum annotation
Keywords: ελληνική μυθολογία mythologia graeca greek mythology mitologia greca griechische mythologie grecque γλυπτική sculptura sculpture sculptural scultura skulptur greco greche griechisches grecquesё ανακούφιση relief rilievo marble with dancing warriors corybantian dance korybantes corybantes corybants korybandes kurbantes warrior soldier soldiers shield helmet dances military pyrrhichios pyrrhic sm 66 inv no 321
