Relief Discus (NAMA 3635)
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A relief disc in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA) with the inventory number 3635 is found around the end of the last century BC. Or the beginning of the first century after the turn of the times.
The disc is largely complete and unfragmented, there are light nicks in several places, and there is a larger flaw on the underside. The picture area is divided by two relief bands. A laurel wreath is shown within both bands, while a figurative scene is presented in the inner medallion . The laurel wreath is formed by two branches that are knotted together at the top and bottom. In the medallion a satyr is shown walking to the left. He's wrapped in fur around his hips, and he wears another animal hide like a coat ( chlamys ) over his left shoulder. He holds the animal hide with his left hand and forms an overlay with it, in his raised right hand he holds a panicle, and two more panicles are stored on the hide. A second satyr is shown on the reverse. This figure is not finished and worn.
It is unclear what the Pentelic marble disc was used for . It is possible that the 40 centimeter diameter pane served as a kind of rotatable window shutter ( oscillium ). It is also possible that it was hung in the portico of a house of a wealthy citizen, just like other well-known diskoi, for decorative purposes . The origin of the piece is unknown, it came into the collection after it was confiscated .
literature
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002 ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , p. 322.