Greek/South Italian, Taranto (ancient Taras) / 300–200 BCE
Relief of Striding Warriors
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Relief of Striding Warriors as sculpture (Greek/South Italian, Taranto (ancient Taras) · 300–200 BCE).
This relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos , or small temple, above a grave.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this sculpture as limestone.
The museum's collection notes: This carved limestone relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveler's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The strong diagonals of the warriors contrasted with the flowing drapery of their cloaks demonstrates a dynamism characteristic of Hellenistic relief sculpture.
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