Eos (Dawn) and Her Chariot

Sculpture

Museum of Antiquities - University of Saskatchewan

Catalogue Image

2015-00-00

Name/Title

Eos (Dawn) and Her Chariot

Entry/Object ID

85R0645

Description

Relief showing Eos, goddess of the dawn, driving a quadriga (four-horse chariot). Her lover (Tithonus or Cephalus) at the horses’ heads. Eos wears a peplos, while her lover wears a chlamys and holds a stick in his right arm. Plaster copy of marble original.

Type of Sculpture

Relief

Artwork Details

Medium

Plaster

Context

Original found at Herculaneum where a twin relief in fragments can be seen in the House of Telephus. This relief was likey from a public building in the centre of the city and was swept to the House of Telephus by the flow of lava mud with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Eos, the dawn goddess, is driving a quadriga. Her lover (Tithonus or Cephalus) is at the horses' heads being chased.

Made/Created

Date made

100 BCE - 1 BCE

Time Period

Hellenistic

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Greek - Hellenistic

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

74 cm

Width

143 cm

Depth

9 cm

Research Notes

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Lukas, Jan. Pompeii and Herculaneum. London: Spring, 1966. Public: No

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Ridgway, BS. Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture. Princeton: University Press, 1981. Public: No

Research Type

Reference

Notes

"Deux Bas-Reliefs Neo-Attiques du Musee de Lisbonne." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, vol 15, 1892. Page 325, plates 8, 9. Public: No