Cast Gallery catalogue number: D012

A hero and his consort seated on a throne behind which a serpent coils.
He holds a kantharos and she a pomegranate. Two worshipers (indicated by reduced scale) approach bearing a cockerel and a flower. The lion legs of the throne are Egyptian in style.

• Plaster cast: Height: 94cm, Width: 71cm.
• Copy of a marble votive relief.
• The relief:
  • was made about 550-540 BC.
  • was found in Sparta on a hillside near Chrysapha.
  • was formerly in the Sabouroff collection.
  • is now in Berlin, Antikensammlung.