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Pair of Architectural Reliefs with Elephants

Date

A.D. 80–100

Medium

Italian marble

Culture

Roman

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

Two rectangular architectural panels with plain moldings, each with the depiction of an elephant in relief. Both pieces are cut and chipped on their inner ends in such a way as to suggest that the elephants faced each other in an architectural setting. Small rectangular cut-away areas appear above the end of the trunk of each elephant. They stride across the panels with their trunks curled in a salute and with fringed ceremonial blankets on their backs. Incised crosshatching is used to convey the roughness of the hide.

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