Date : approx. between 400 and 390 B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1947)
Grèce classique
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Lécythe funéraire)
Vitrine : V03
Area related
Attique (Greece)
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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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