Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora by Claireve Grandjouan

By Claireve Grandjouan

Over a hundred clay molds stumbled on among 1931 and 1977 within the fills in the 3 nice Hellenistic stoas that after coated the Agora (the heart Stoa, the Stoa of Attalos, and the South Stoa) are released during this ebook. whereas the repertory of pictures which can were solid utilizing them, comprising 25 topics, is comparatively traditional, the massive dimension (up to 30 x 60 cm) makes their functionality a puzzle. the writer concludes that they need to were for the casting of inexpensive funerary substitutes at a time whilst a decree of Demetrios of Phaleron prohibited the construction of pricy burial monuments in Athens. After the author's dying in 1982, this quantity was once edited through Eileen Markson and Susan I. Rotroff.

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88It is also in Taras that clay banquet reliefs abound;89they are rare elsewhere outside Athens, if we interpretclay molds as meaning clay reliefs in Athens. 86 R. Lullies, "VergoldeteTerrakotta-Applikenaus Tarent," a brief introductionin AA (Jdl 73) 1958, pp. 143-155; Lullies, Tarent, a major presentationof the material;and Lullies, "Addenda,"a richly dense update with importantbibliography1962-1977, which will not be repeatedhere. H. Hoffmann, in his review of Lullies, Tarent (AJA 68, 1964, pp.

15-51), pls. 19-20. On a terracottaantefix:RomaMedioRep,no. 481, p. 333, pl. XXII. A gold cut-out of a similar Nike ornamenteda piece of wooden furniture in the antechamberof tomb II at Vergina (Andronikos, Vergina, p. 176, fig. 140). The figure is also found on Campana reliefs (Borbein, Campanareliefs,pl. 5), although an Augustan origin is posited for the type there (see G. M. A. Hanfmann, C. , "A New Trajan,"AJA 61, 1957 [pp. 223-253], p. 246). 58 For a summary of the type and its interpretationsee N.

Antiker Gold- und Silberschmuck, Mainz 1968, no. 17, pp. 24-25 (gold plaques from Palaiokastro,late 2nd-lst century);Stella G. Miller, Two Groups of Thessalian Gold (University of CaliforniaPublicationsin Classical Studies 18), Berkeley 1979, pl. 11 (rings). , Ducrey (footnote50 above), pl. 3 and Robinson, OlynthusV, pl. 11. 57 On arulae: RomaMedioRep,nos. 56, 63, pp. 80, 84, pl. XIX; E. D. Van Buren, "TerracottaArulae," MAAR 2, 1918 (pp. 15-51), pls. 19-20. On a terracottaantefix:RomaMedioRep,no.

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