Relief of a Rhodian Trireme - Lindos, Greece
Posted by: SMacB
N 36° 05.512 E 028° 05.325
35S E 598014 N 3994687
At the foot of the steps, before you make the uphill climb to the Acropolis, there is a beautiful carving in the rock of an Exedra and Trireme in relief.
Waymark Code: WM11FV9
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 10/16/2019
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"Relief stern of a warship (triemiolia), early 2nd c. B.C. -
The relief served as the base of a bronze portrait statue of Hagesandros son of Mikion, whom the Lindians honoured on the occasion of a naval victory of the Rhodians. The stern of the warship (triemolia), which preserves traces of red pigment, is rendered in detail, with the aphlaston at the right end and the richly bedecked captain's seat in the form ofa bird's wing. Discernible on the back of the base, within a small temple (naiskos), is a standing female figure with kalathos on the head. Preserved on the rock in front of the relief is a row of holes, in which were set the iron railings that protected the monument.
According to the inscription on the hull of the ship, the work was created by the renowned Rhodian sculptor Pythokritos son of Timocharis.
The Rhodian's preference for representations of ships in art was close linked with their maritime tradition and their confidence in the martial ability of their ships."
SOURCE - info board
"Anakoúfisi prýmni enós polemikoú ploíou (triemiolia), archés 2ou aióna p.CH. -
To anáglyfo chrisímeve os vási enós chálkinou portraítou agálmatos tou Egadegrus, gios tou Míchiou, to opoío timíthike apó tous Líntzious me tin efkairía tis naftikís níkis ton Rodíon. I prýmni tou polemikoú ploíou (triemolia), i opoía diatireí íchni kókkinou chrómatos, gínetai me leptoméreia, me to apsálton sto dexí ákro kai ton ploúsio kapetánio me ti morfí ptérygas poulioú. Charaktiristikó sto píso méros tis vásis, mésa se éna mikró naó (thólos), eínai mia stásimi gynaikeía figoúra me charitoméno kefáli. Diatiriméno páno sti vrácho brostá apó to anáglyfo eínai mia seirá apó trýpes, stis opoíes topothetoúntai ta siderénia kinklidómata pou prostátevan to mnimeío.
Sýmfona me tin epigrafí sto kýtos tou ploíou, to érgo dimiourgíthike apó ton perífimo glýpti Rythológo Pythókrito, gio tou Timochári.
I protímisi tis Ródou gia kallitechnikés parastáseis ploíon ítan stená syndedeméni me ti naftikí parádosi kai tin empistosýni tous stin ikanótita ton ploíon tous na polemísoun. "
PIGI - pínakas pliroforión