Inventory number
ΕΑΜ 1341
Category
Sculpture
Period
Classical Period
Date
End of 5th-beginning of 4th cent. BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.275 m
Length: 0.52 m
Material
Marble from Penteli
Location
Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes
The “Relief of the Cart Driver” was found in the Sanctuary of Asklepios. It was mended of three fragments and restored.
Asklepios, his daughter Hygeia and possibly his wife, Epione, are represented as recipients of Antimedon’ s gratitude, a cart driver whom the god must have saved when his cart fully loaded with stones overturned.
Asklepios stands dressed in himation. Hygeia draped in chiton and himation rests her left hand on the god’s shoulder and with the right holds an oinochoe. Behind her Epione or another Asklepios’ daughter clad in an Attic-type peplos is fragmentarily preserved.
The carter in a short chiton and pilos on his head approaches Asklepios stretching out his right hand towards him, followed by the two horses pulling the cart. Over the animals is inscribed:...---ΕΙΕ ΚΑΝΔ---...[ΕΚ ΜΕΓΑΛ]ΩΜ ΠΕΤΡΩΝ ΗΓΕΜΟΝΟ[Σ ΓΕΓΑΩΣ] ΑΝ[ΤΙΜΕΔΩ]Ν ΣΩΘΕΣ ΔΕ ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕ ΤΟ[ΥΤΟ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ] ΣΟΙ [ΚΑΛΟ]Ν ΕΣ ΤΕΜΕΝΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΔΙΔΟ Ε[ΥΤΥΧΙΑΝ], which means “Antimedon, the son of Hegemon, after he was saved from the fall of big rocks, to you Asklepios gladly decicated (the relief) in your fine sanctuary, grant him with good luck…”.
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