Greek attic because the framing niche that once surrounded this relief is missing there are no inscriptions that might identify the deceased.
Attic grave stele.
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400 bce it is made entirely of pentelic marble it stands 1 49m high and 0 92m wide in the form of a naiskos with pilasters and a pediment featuring palmette acroteria the relief currently on display at the national.
Fragment of relief from an attic grave stele ca.
An attic grave stele of the fourth century b c.
Archaic grave markers attic relief gravestones stelai in attica around 580 bc a series of tall gravestones begins topped by the figure of a sphinx on a simply decorated capital.
After the mid century the capital is elaborated as palmettes with spirals but soon thereafter the stele type is simplified with a palmette only.
Stela also spelled stele greek.
Greek attic inscribed on the base.
To dear me gakles on his death his father with his dear mother set me up as a monument this is the most complete grave monument of its type to have survived from the archaic period.
Attic grave stele of a man with his family ca.
Marble stele grave marker of a youth and a little girl ca.
The attic grave relief of thraseas and euandria from the middle of the fourth century bc is kept in the pergamonmuseum and belongs to the antikensammlung berlin.
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The subject represented by the sculpture is one not uncommon among these grave reliefs.
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The iconography of deceased maidens on attic grave reliefs of the classical period hesperia.
In the neighbourhood of the ancient kerameikos it belonged to the sabouroff collection and was acquired from this for the antikensammlung berlin in 1884.
The relief was found in athens in the agia triada i e.
Marble grave stele with a family group ca.
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Shaft or pillar plural stelae standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication commemoration and demarcation.
Lament and death instead of marriage.
A woman seated in a straight chair holds the hand of a man who stands in front of her.
This woman is the deceased over whose tomb the monument was placed.
The journal of the american school of classical studies at athens vol.
Although the origin of the stela is unknown a stone slab either decorated or undecorated was commonly used as a tombstone both in the east and in grecian lands as early as mycenae.
The grave stele of hegeso most likely sculpted by callimachus is renowned as one of the finest attic grave stelae surviving mostly intact today.
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