DUE RILIEVI VOTIVI GRECI NEL MUSEO BARRACCO DI ROMA

Abstract

The article examines two votive Greek reliefs housed in the Museum Barracco at Rome. One
represents a heros equitans followed by a young servant and a dog, the other is decorated with a
Totenmahl scene. Provenance and ways of acquisition are unknown, but it’s possible to hypothesize
an Attic/Beotic origin for the former, whereas the latter was surely made in Attica. Although both
reliefs have not received much attention in the archaeological literature, they are important witnesses
of heroic cults of the 4th century BC in Greece.