Cast (late 19th century) of three reliefs, from Mantinea in the Peloponnese, Greece, c. 330 BC. [Athens, National Museum]
Plaster (97 x 410 cm)
The musical contest between Apollo and the satyr Marsyas, watched by six Muses. Between the contestants stands a Scythian slave holding a knife, with which the loser will be flayed. These reliefs are probably from a statue base.
Literature: Winchester College Memorial Buildings: Department of Classical Art (Winchester, 1909), pp. 2-3 (no. 5)