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Marble funerary lekythos of Kallistenes

Marble funerary lekythos of Kallistenes





Artist : Anonymous

Date : approx. between 400 and 390 B.C.

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1947)
Item 31 on 53
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture

Vitrine : V03

Area related
Attique (Greece)

Description   

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.

The figure of Kallistenes, whose name is inscribed, is shown in low relief clasping her hand of a seated man, while a woman raises her hand to her chin in a customary sign of mourning.

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