Pericles on Column Base Ajax The Great The Black Azalia Marble Column

The Black Azalia Marble Column is emphatically the latter

A highly detailed relief plaque depicting Diana

It has sculpted oak leaves and sun flower decorated body

often she wears ear drops of pearls as ornaments

38 cm tall x 10 cm diam

Pericles on Column Base Ajax The Great The Black Azalia Marble ColumnPericles, a bust, set on a column base. A Grand Tour souvenir. Pericles, which means "Surrounded by Glory"; was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's golden agespecifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family, and was known as the first citizen of Athens. He started the ambitious