Chariot Mount with Three Figures
Unknown
300–500 · Copper Alloy · Medieval Art
The men who adorn this chariot mount are probably two orators and a grammarian, as suggested by their gestures and by the scrolls and writing tablets they hold. The piece may have been used to decorate the chariot of a distinguished orator in Gaul.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 300–500
- Medium
- Copper Alloy
- Culture
- Late Roman or Byzantine
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1947
