Grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria

The Attic grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria from the middle of the 4th century BC. Is now in the Pergamon Museum and belongs to the Berlin Collection of Antiquities .

The relief was found in Athens on the church of Agia Triada , i.e. in the area of ancient Kerameikos . It belonged to the Sabouroff collection and was acquired from this in 1884 for the antique collection. The 160 cm high and 91 cm wide work of art made of Pentelic marble was built around the years 350 to 340 BC. Created. The main characters depicted are inscribed on the architrave and named as Thraseas from the Demos Perithoidai and Euandria.

Grave monuments of this kind were often placed on the grave roads on the outskirts of Greek cities. The figures appear block-like and have a voluminous plasticity. At the time the relief was made, the relief representations became deeper and the figurative representations detached themselves from the relief base. The grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria is an early representative of this new form of representation. This gives the figures a stronger three-dimensional life of their own.

The two spouses emerge from the relief in the foreground. On the left stands the bearded Thraseas clad in a cloak, on the right Euandria, clad in a cloak and chiton , sits on an upholstered stool. Her feet rest on a footstool, she wears sandals. The two shake hands in marital union and as a sign of the farewell caused by death and look each other in the eye. A servant with short hair typical of slaves, who supports her head in her right hand, is shown between them as a symbol that intensifies the grief. This gesture, in which the cheek and temple are nestled in the hand, is a gesture of deep mourning known from other works of art. The depicted young slave gives the relief additional depth, as she is spatially in the background, but is less deeply worked out. At the edge of the relief, a flat naiskos with ante , architrave and gable surrounds the scenery. Three acroteries that used to stand on the gable are now lost.

literature

Grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria . In: Königliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.), Alexander Conze (preliminary work): Description of the ancient sculptures with the exclusion of the Pergamene finds . Spemann, Berlin 1891, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 16-diglit-34567 , p. 277 No. 738.
Elisabeth Rohde : Greek and Roman Art in the State Museums in Berlin . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1968, p. 88.
Max Kunze : grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria . In: State Museums in Berlin. Prussian cultural property. Antikensammlung (Ed.): The Antikensammlung in the Pergamon Museum and in Charlottenburg . von Zabern, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-8053-1187-7 , pp. 114-115.

Remarks

↑ Inventory number Sk 738 (K 34)

52.520833333333 13.396388888889Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15 " N , 13 ° 23' 47" E

[1] Inventory number Sk 738 (K 34)