NO DOCUMENTATION. THE ACCESSION CARD STATES THAT THIS OBJECT IS PART OF A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS (CATALOG NUMBERS 295528-295535) "MOSTLY OF CLASSICAL ORIGIN FOUND BY MR. J. RUSSELL DURING HIS INVENTORY OF OUR OLD WORLD ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, IN THE WEST COURT OF THE NEW MUSEUM BUILDING WHERE THEY HAD BEEN STORED SINCE COMPLETION OF THE BUILDING IN 1910. DR. HOUGH AT THAT TIME (1933) RECALLED THAT THESE SPECIMENS HAD BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE; THEREFORE THEY WERE GIVEN CATALOG NUMBERS & ASSIGNED TO ACCESSION 81 FOR THE YEAR 1862, RECORDED AS '4 WAGON LOADS OF MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS'."
Relief of a hoplite (Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. Rizzoli International Publications, NY. 1996, p. 439). Hoplite figure broken at the knees and missing a head. He is nude and carries a shield on his left arm.
