Relief depicting Pan playing his flute

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ 1443

Category

Sculpture

Period

Classical Period

Date

4th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.305 m

Material

Marble from Penteli

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes

Description
Bibliography

Found in 1829 on the Acropolis south slope below the Sanctuary of Pan. The whole relief’s left part is missing.

The scene takes place in a cave. To the left Pan sits on a rock playing the pan-flute. A young man in a short chiton and raised right hand approaches him. He may be Hermes, Pan’s father, who held something indiscernible with his left hand, perhaps a Nymph's hand

Πιττάκης, Κ.Σ., «Φυλλάδιον 18», Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς 1840 (1840), σελ. 322-323, εικ. 389, αρ.κατ. 389
Arndt, P., Amelung, W., Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Sculpturen, München, 1893-1947, σελ. 3, αρ.κατ. 1248
Pottier, E., «Bas-relief des Nymphes trouvé à Éleusis», Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 5, 1881, σελ. 354, αρ.κατ. 15
Edwards, Ch. M., Greek Votive Reliefs to Pan and the Nymphs (διδακτορική διατριβή), New York, 1985, σελ. 499-502, εικ. 13, αρ.κατ. 25
Günther, G., Gӧttervereine und Gӧtterversammlungen auf attischen Weihreliefs. Untersuchungen zur Typologie und Bedeutung, Würzburg, 1994, σελ. 10, 17, 19, 120, αρ.κατ. A17