Relief of Zeus and Goddesses
Shallow marble relief showing a seated Zeus, off-duty almost, caught in conversation with two goddesses. The one on the left is most probably Hera and the one on the right, possibly Thetis. The signature scratched onto the block that Zeus is sitting on, Diadumeni, is a modern forgery
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Paris, Louvre
Size:
0.52 x 0.57m
References:
Hauser: Die Neu Attischen Reliefs (1889), 82, no.9
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 225 (n.1)
Fröhner: Notice de la Sculpture Antique du Musée Nationale du Louvre (1878), 29, no.7
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 91, no.492
Date:
C1 BCE - C1 CE
Inscription:
The scratched inscription is a later forged addition
Provenance:
Found in Rome; taken from the Turin Collection by Napoleon
Number:
444