IG II(2) 4886 Votive relief set up by a demesman from Phyle.
Modern Publication(s): CIG 469; Mus. Worsl., Cl. I, no. 9 (p. 18a); Michaelis no. 110 (pp. 239-40); IG II 1528; IG II(2) 4886; SEG XLVII 30.
Brief description: Votive relief
Attributes
Inscription Type: Dedication
Object Type: Relief
Material: Marble
Original Location: Leake postulated, on the basis of its find-spot, that the relief was probably a dedication ‘in one of the caverns in the rocks of the Akropolis.’
Provenance: ‘found near the Akropolis of Athens.’ (Leake)
Date: 400-350 BC (Kirchner, app. crit. to IG II(2) 4886).
Dimensions:
Layout: One line of preserved text.
Writing: Inscribed: ‘I am of opinion that the inscription contained the names of the heroes, to whom the marble was inscribed, and also the name of the person who dedicated it, with that of his father.’ (Worsley p. 20)
Condition:
Decoration: ‘A man, clothed in chiton and chlamys, followed by three females also clothed, moving…before an altar of rough stones in a rocky grotto, over which Pan, with goat’s legs, is sitting... From the l[eft] approaches a troop of worshippers…of less magnitude. They lead a ram as a sacrificial offering and among them is probably the donor of the relief, who came from the Attic demos Phyla.’ (Michaelis) Visconti identified the man and three females as Kekrops and his daughters, Aglauros, Pandrosos and Herse; Michaelis preferred to interpret the scene as Hermes leading three nymphs.
Collection
Location: Brocklesby Park: ‘most of the Yarborough and Worlsey marbles seem to be in the sculpture Gallery behind the house.’ (Vermeule 1955 p. 131)
Collector(s): Sir Richard Worlsey; Worsley’s collection then passed on to the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park (see Michaelis pp. 115-117).
Date collected: Collected by Sir Richard Worsley during his travels in Greece 1785-7. ‘On the sale of the Appuldurcomb[e] property the collection formed by Worsley was removed to the Earl of Yarborough’s seat, Brocklesby Park…’ (Lee p. 37)
Accession or catalogue number: Not known
Translation
[ --- i]ppo from Phyle set up this dedication.
Bibliography
J. Dallaway, Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or Comparative Remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, & Painting, Chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford (London 1800) p. 362 no. 30.
W. M. Leake, The topography of Athens and the Demi Second edition, volume 1 (London 1841) pp. 482-3.
S. Lee, Dictionary of National Biography vol. 63 Wordsworth- Zuylestein (London 1900) s.v. Sir Richard Worsley (p. 37).
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge 1882) no. 110 (p. 239-40).
K. O. Müller, Denkmäler der alten Kunst (Band 2: Tafeln) (Göttingen 1877) no. 555 (p. 44)
C. C. Vermeule, ‘Notes on a new edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain’, AJA 59 No. 2 (1955), 129-150 (p. 130 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain part two’, AJA 60 no. 4 (1956) 321-350 (pp. 324-325 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
R. Worsley, Museum Worsleyanum (London 1824) Class I, no. 9 (p. 18a); pp. 19-23.
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Image(s)
Müller no. 555 (p. 44)
Worsley Cl. I, no. 9 (p. 18a)
