Stock Photo - Detail of a Roman Sebasteion relief sculpture of Agon Aphrodisias Museum, Aphrodisias, Turkey. . . The scene is an allegory of the athletic contest (or agon). The pillar was a beareded head of Hermes the god of the Gymnasium. Nearby is a palm of victory and a prize table with victory ribbon on it. Two winged baby Eros figures are struggling over a palm branch ( mostly broken): they act out the idea of contest, which is personified in the youthful figure behind. He hold another palm of victory: he is Agon himself.

Stock Photo: Detail of a Roman Sebasteion relief sculpture of Agon Aphrodisias Museum, Aphrodisias, Turkey. . . The scene is an allegory of the athletic contest (or agon).

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