Date : near VIth century B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1917)
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Greek Antiquities
Element of architecture (Chapiteau)
Area related
Attique (Greece)
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This capital was part of a funerary or votive stele. It surmounted a tall shaft and supported a separately carved finial - presumably a sphinx. The cavetto capital has a more elongated shape than the earlier example exhibited nearby.
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