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Apobates

Apobates





Artist : Phidias

Model : Cheval
Sponsor : Périclès

Date : approx. between 440 and 432 B.C.

Material : Marble
UNESCO World Heritage Site (Définitif) : 1987

Item 2 on 7
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture

Vitrine : Nord (Ref. 859 - XVII)

Area related
Acropole d'Athènes (Greece)

Description   

An apobates at the moment when he leaps onto the chariot drawn by a very small charioteer. The apobates wears an exomis and a helmet and carries a round shield. Between him and the next chariot is a marshal bracing himself with a feet spread wide apart.
Apobates
Phidias
Cheval
Périclès