# Metrological Relief

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Metrological Relief Material Marble Size length: 2.09 meters height: 62 cm Created 460–430 BC Discovered 1625–26 Turkey or Greece Discovered by William Petty Present location Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

The **Metrological Relief** is an [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greece) [relief](/source/Relief) of a man with arms outstretched, cut with hammer and chisel on a triangular, [marble](/source/Marble) slab between 460 and 430 [BC](/source/Before_Christ).[1]

It was found in [Turkey](/source/Turkey) or the [Greek Islands](/source/Greek_Islands) in 1625–26 by a [chaplain](/source/Chaplain) called William Petty collecting [sculptures](/source/Sculptures) for [Thomas Howard](/source/Thomas_Howard%2C_21st_Earl_of_Arundel), [Earl](/source/Earl) of [Arundel](/source/Arundel). It was sold to [Sir William Fermor](/source/William_Fermor%2C_1st_Baron_Leominster) in 1691 and then presented to [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) in 1755. It is now on display at the [Ashmolean Museum](/source/Ashmolean_Museum) in [Oxford](/source/Oxford), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). It was the only known metrological relief until 1988 when another was found on [Salamis Island](/source/Salamis_Island), [Greece](/source/Greece).

## Measurements

The relief measures 2.09 m long, 62 cm high, c. 10 cm thick and is broken over the figure's left forearm but when complete it measured one [Greek](/source/Ancient_Greece) fathom or [orguia](/source/Orguia).[2] 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.[3] Eric Fernie studied the relief and noted its ancient measurement of the Greek fathom.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Kappraff2002_1-0)** Jay Kappraff (2002). [*Beyond measure: a guided tour through nature, myth, and number*](https://books.google.com/books?id=vAfBrK678_kC&pg=PA237). World Scientific. pp. 237–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-981-02-4702-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-981-02-4702-7). Retrieved 22 April 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Tavernor2007_2-0)** Robert Tavernor (2007). [*Smoot's ear: the measure of humanity*](https://archive.org/details/smootsearmeasure0000tave). Yale University Press. pp. [22](https://archive.org/details/smootsearmeasure0000tave/page/22)–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-12492-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-12492-7). Retrieved 22 April 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Lorenzen1966_3-0)** Eivind Lorenzen (1966). [*Technological studies in ancient metrology*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aToLAQAAIAAJ). Nyt Nordisk Forlag. Retrieved 23 April 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-London1981_4-0)** Society of Antiquaries of London (1981). [*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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=JAgpAAAAYAAJ). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 April 2011.

## External links

- [Ashmolean exhibit including images and English translation.](http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/faqs/q002/)

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