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Unknown, Relief Fragment
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Unknown

Relief Fragment

540–530 B.C.

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Silver and gold
Dimensions
8.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-250220

Each panel on this gilded silver matrix-hammered diadem represents a different mythological scene. The surviving panels show, from left to right: a running Gorgon (body and legs only); the battle of Zeus, who wields a thunderbolt, and the snake-legged Typhon (missing a small section towards the bottom of the scene); Orestes slaying Clytemnestra over the body of Aigisthos; a second running Gorgon. The following group of a female figure holding the arm of a warrior or hero with her right hand likely represents Athena and Perseus, who looks back at the goddess as he decapitates Medusa (missing). A final fragmentary panel represents Theseus slaying the Minotaur. The sheet is only partially preserved.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California

Registry history

  • 540–530 B.C. — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture

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