IG II(2) 4952: Votive relief to Herakles.

Modern Publication(s): CIG 473; Mus. Worsl., Cl. I, no. 2 (p. 10); Michaelis no. 28 (p. 231); IG II 1607; IG II(2) 4952

Brief description: Votive relief

Attributes

Inscription Type: Dedication

Object Type: Relief

Material: Marble (Worsley)

Original Location:

Provenance: ‘discovered at Athens in 1785.’ (Dallaway)

Date:

Dimensions:

Layout: Two lines of preserved text.

Writing: Inscribed: ‘the inscription…is defaced and very imperfect.’ (Worsley)

Condition:

Decoration: ‘The hero is lying on the lion’s skin with the skyphos in his r[ight] hand and a wine-skin in his l[eft]; quiver and club are near him.’ (Michaelis). The relief ‘resembles…one of the Oxford marbles in the Arundel collection.’ (Worsley)

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: Found by Sir Richard Worsley at Athens in 1785. ‘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

Timaios the Herakleian and ---es the Herakleian set up this dedication ---NOSOU.

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. 27.

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. 28 (p. 231).

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. 2 (p. 10); pp. 11-12.

Web Links

Greek text, from PHI

Image(s)

Worsley Cl. I, no. 2 (p. 10)