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Date : near 400 B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1908)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Area related
Attique (Greece)
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The deceased, seated on a chair, holds a lekythos in her raised left hand and a large pyxis on her lap. Although the stele is said from Attica, the characteristics suggest that the relief has been worked in Boeotia. The stele was reworked at a later time. A number of stelai with similar reworked surfaces have been found in Thespiae, in Boeotia. During the Roman period, the Thespians reused ancestral gravestones to mark the grave of they own dead. The reliefs were often slightly refurbished, inscription replaced with new ones and figures totally removed.
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