MACEDONIAN FUNERARY BED, 325-290 BCE. MUSÉE DU LOUVRE This relief in Pentelic marble still retains some of its original red paint. Aristocratic Macedonian tombs had much in common with Etruscan tumuli, with an entrance corridor leading into a series of rooms with the tomb chamber at the end of the sequence. The relief we see here shows a bed from the side. Its upright posts are carved to resemble wooden bedposts and would once have been brightly painted. The deceased is not shown on the bed or anywhere else: he has already gone to the Underworld. But his loyal Molossian hound, beautifully carved, is shown lying under the bed, alert and on guard.
#ReliefWednesday takes to #Paris, where two marble panels from #Pydna in northern #Greece, part of ancient #Macedonia, show a funerary bed with a very good boy carefully guarding his master's tomb. #AncientBluesky 🏺
