TARENTINE, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

The finely-carved relief likely comes from the pediment of a naiskos, a small temple or shrine which in ancient Greece served as a funerary monument. It is decorated with two tritons with long sea-snake tails, holding a rudder, with a dolphin at each side. For a fragment of a limestone pediment with a triton holding a rudder and a shield see Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 1992.11.1.