Charioteer and His Wife

Sculpture

Tunisia, Carthage, Yasmina cemetery

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.

National Museum of Carthage, Tunisia

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.

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.

Attributed to Angela Kalinowski under the license CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Angela Kalinowski

Photographer

Statue
Marble
Male
Female
Charioteer
Funerary
Roman

3rd c. CE