Asseria, Vol. 5 No. 5, 2007.
Original scientific paper
AN IMAGE OF THE DIOSCURI ON A BRONZE PLAQUE FROM ASSERIA
Željko Miletić
; University of Zadar
Abstract
A cast bronze plaque in the shape of an aedicule, with an image of one of the Dioscuri standing by a horse and holding its reins, was discovered during excavations in 2001 at Asseria, by the suburban gates. The youth is portrayed facing front, naked, with a cap (pileus) with a star above it, a cloak tossed over the right arm, and a sword fastened to a belt hanging over his shoulder. The horse is saddled and facing sideways.
No monumental sculpture of the Dioscuri is known that would exactly correspond typologically to the scene from Asseria. After comparisons with images of the Dioscuri at Campidoglio in Rome, on a sarcophagus from San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, frescoes in the vestibule of the Casa dei Dioscuri at Pompeii, a relief on a stone block from Pula, and an image of Castor on a Sabazian tablet in Copenhagen, the depiction from Asseria is dated approximately to the end of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century AD. [...]
Keywords
plaque; Dioscuri; Asseria; iuvenes; Cybele; Sabazius
Hrčak ID:
38058
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2007.
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