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Date : approx. between 375 and 350 B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Bequest of Joseph Pulitzer (1949)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Vitrine : V03
Area related
Athènes (Greece)
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Said to have been found near the Kerameikos in Athens. Inscribed above the large figures, from left to right : Stratokleia Aiolos, Aristomache, Axiomache. Below the seated woman : Leonike.
The deceased in presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She claps the hand of her mother while her father gestures to her. The group in flanked by two male members of the family and two small servants.
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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