Charioteer and His Wife

Charioteer and His Wife

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Titles Charioteer and His Wife:
Name Angela Kalinowski
Type of Resource still image
Genre Sculpture
Abstract Pair of pentelic marble statues depicting a male charioteer and his wife. The charioteer is slightly over life size, carries a vessel in his right hand and is missing a portion of his right arm and left leg while the wife is slightly under life size and is missing her head and left hand.
Physical Location National Museum of Carthage, Tunisia
Extent H: 1.56 m
Form nonprojected graphic
Note Dates to c. 3rd century CE. This pair of statues were discovered at different times during excavations of the Yasmina cemetery at Carthage. The charioteer was found in 1981 by Annabi and the charioteer's wife was found by Naomi Norman in 1993. Dunbabin suggests that the man is in fact not a charioteer, but rather a sparsores, one who throws water onto the horses heads, due to the inclusion of the amphora instead of a palm branch (Dunbabin, 2016: p.157).
Access Condition Attributed to Angela Kalinowski under the license CC-BY-NC 4.0
Access Condition CC-BY-NC 4.0
Subject Local Name --Statue--Marble--Male--Female--Charioteer--Funerary--Roman------3rd c. CE
Note Dunbabin, Katherine M. D. Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire. New York: Cornell University, 2016. Bibliography compiled by Dr. Joann Freed. Charioteer: 1) Thuillier, Jean-Paul, “”Agitator ou sparsor? À propos d’une célèbre statue de Carthage,” CRAI 1999, 1081-1106 [in Persée]. 2) Paul Veyne, Azzedine Beschaouch and Abdelmajid Ennabli, 1995, “Statue d’aurige romain trouvée à Carthage,” Revue archéologique, 39-54. [on JSTOR] Charioteer’s wife: 1) Laridhi Ouazaa, N., L. Casas, A. Álvarez, B. Fouzai, M. Moreno-Vide, L. Vidal, S. Roudosli, C. Sonzogni, D. Borschneck. 2013. “Provenance of marble sculptures from the National Museum of Carthage (Tunisia),” Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 1602-10 [online]. 2) Norman, N. J. 1994. “Excavations in the Yasmina necropolis. The 1993 season,” CEDAC Carthage 14 (1994), 12-14. 3) Naomi J. Norman and Anne E. Haeckl, 1993, “The Yasmina necropolis at Carthage, 1992,” JRA 6, 238-50.