{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Artifact |name = Metrological Relief |image = [[file:Metrological Relief Ashmolean.JPG|220px]] |image_caption = |material = [[Marble]] |created = 460–430 BC |location = [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Oxford]], [[United Kingdom]] |discovered_place=[[Turkey]] or [[Greece]]|discovered_by=William Petty|discovered_date=1625–26|size=length: 2.09 meters <br> height: 62 cm}}
The '''Metrological Relief''' is an [[ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[relief]] of a man with arms outstretched, cut with hammer and chisel on a triangular, [[marble]] slab between 460 and 430 [[Before Christ|BC]].<ref name="Kappraff2002">{{cite book|author=Jay Kappraff|title=Beyond measure: a guided tour through nature, myth, and number|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAfBrK678_kC&pg=PA237|accessdate=22 April 2011|year=2002|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-4702-7|pages=237–}}</ref>
It was found in [[Turkey]] or the [[Greek Islands]] in 1625–26 by a [[chaplain]] called William Petty collecting [[sculptures]] for [[Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel|Thomas Howard]], [[Earl]] of [[Arundel]]. It was sold to [[William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster|Sir William Fermor]] in 1691 and then presented to [[Oxford University]] in 1755. It is now on display at the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in [[Oxford]], [[United Kingdom]]. It was the only known metrological relief until 1988 when another was found on [[Salamis Island]], [[Greece]].
==Measurements== The relief measures 2.09 m long, 62 cm high, {{Circa}} 10 cm thick and is broken over the figure's left forearm but when complete it measured one [[ancient Greece|Greek]] fathom or [[orguia]].<ref name="Tavernor2007">{{cite book|author=Robert Tavernor|title=Smoot's ear: the measure of humanity|url=https://archive.org/details/smootsearmeasure0000tave|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 April 2011|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12492-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/smootsearmeasure0000tave/page/22 22]–}}</ref> There is also an image of a foot above the right forearm which measures 29.7 cm, an imprint of a clenched fist over the right forearm of 11 cm and fingers, which measure between 1.85 and 2 cm.<ref name="Lorenzen1966">{{cite book|author=Eivind Lorenzen|title=Technological studies in ancient metrology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aToLAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2011|year=1966|publisher=Nyt Nordisk Forlag}}</ref> Eric Fernie studied the relief and noted its ancient measurement of the Greek fathom.<ref name="London1981">{{cite book|author=Society of Antiquaries of London|title=The Antiquaries journal: being the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, The Greek Metrological Relief in Oxford by Eric J. Fernie, p. 255|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JAgpAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2011|year=1981|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/faqs/q002/ Ashmolean exhibit including images and English translation.]
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