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Top left: Dioskouroi relief showing Dioskouroi leaning on spears, facing e...

Collection: Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Title: Dioskouroi relief
Context: From Achaia
Findspot: Found at Aigeira
Summary: Dioskouroi leaning on spears, facing each other, with a cock fight between them
Object Function: Votive?
Material: Limestone
Sculpture Type: Stele, relief-decorated
Category: Single monument
Style: Late Classical
Technique: Low relief
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 400 BC - ca. 350 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.40 m; W. 0.30 m
Scale: Miniature (pictorial field)
Region: Achaia
Period: Late Classical


Form & Style: The relief is crowned with a pediment adorned with three palmette akroteria.

Condition: Intact

Condition Description: Broken off at the bottom and somewhat restored. The surface is worn.

Sources Used: Karouzou 1968, 149; Svoronos 1903-12, pl. 71