Marsyas och sliparen

Abstract

Summary Marsyas and the Grinder byBaron Eric Langen‐skiold. The representations of the punishment of Marsyas in Graeco‐Roman art, which are discussed here, may be divided into three groups: In free sculpture we know of about twenty representations of Marsyas as an isolated figure suspended from a tree, but only in one case, cat. nr 20, is he represented together with the Grinder. This group, which is preserved in the Museum at Bardo, in Tunis, has never, so far as I am aware, been mentioned in connection with the discussion on the appearance of the Marsyas group. There is only one known instance of the Grinder as a piece of free sculpture. It has, however, already been pointed out by investigators that the Grinder cannot have been conceived as an isolated figure but must have been composed as forming part of a group.—In sculpture in relief and in the art of gemcutting the Marsyas group has been represented in a good many instances, though the grouping has differed and the number of secondary figures has v...