Greek Grave Relief for a Soldier

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Geoffrey Marchal
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published on 17 November 2016

Grave relief for a soldier, Athens, 330 BCE, marble.Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

The soldier is in combat, raising his sword to kill a prostrate enemy. Content, quality and format suggest that this may have been part of an Athenian state memorial.

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