Cleveland Museum of Art

Relief of Striding Warriors

Date: 300–200 BCE
Medium: limestone
Culture: Greek/South Italian, Taranto (ancient Taras)
Department: Greek and Roman Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 109294

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This carved limestone relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveler's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The strong diagonals of the warriors contrasted with the flowing drapery of their cloaks demonstrates a dynamism characteristic of Hellenistic relief sculpture. This relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos , or small temple, above a grave.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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