Tuesday, June 5, 2012
As of May 22 and for a period of three years, a 4th century BC Decree Relief will be on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The marble relief is a loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and is the first to go on loan, as a result of a framework for cultural cooperation signed in September 2011 between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture. It takes the form of a stele, bearing a historical decree, dated back to 330 BC and it is crowned with the figures of Herakles and his son Antiochos.
It was discovered in 1922 in the foundations of a house in the Athenian neighbourhood of Kynosarges, where a public gymnasium and a sanctuary of Herakles stood in the classical years. The 2011 Framework for Cultural Cooperation provides for joint scholarship, research projects, loans, and exhibitions between the Getty Museum and the Hellenic Republic.
