Date : approx. entre 375 et 350 avant J.C.
Matériaux : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1912)
Grèce classique
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Lécythe funéraire)
Vitrine : V03
Région en relation
Attique (Greece)
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The monument was probably erected in memory of the young long-haired girl who claps her father's hand while her seated mother presents a bird to her little sister.
During the fifth and fourth centuries BC, memorials to dead sometimes took the form of a monumental marble lekythoi. The shape was appropriate, for the lekythos - a vase used exclusively to hold oil - played an important part in funerary preparation and ritual.
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