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Attic grave stele.
The grave stele of hegeso most likely sculpted by callimachus is renowned as one of the finest attic grave stelae surviving mostly intact today.
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To dear me gakles on his death his father with his dear mother set me up as a monument this is the most complete grave monument of its type to have survived from the archaic period.
The relief was found in athens in the agia triada i e.
Stela also spelled stele greek.
In the neighbourhood of the ancient kerameikos it belonged to the sabouroff collection and was acquired from this for the antikensammlung berlin in 1884.
A woman seated in a straight chair holds the hand of a man who stands in front of her.
This woman is the deceased over whose tomb the monument was placed.
Fragment of relief from an attic grave stele ca.
Marble stele grave marker of a youth and a little girl ca.
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After the mid century the capital is elaborated as palmettes with spirals but soon thereafter the stele type is simplified with a palmette only.
An attic grave stele of the fourth century b c.
Greek attic because the framing niche that once surrounded this relief is missing there are no inscriptions that might identify the deceased.
Greek attic inscribed on the base.
Attic grave stele of a man with his family ca.
400 bce it is made entirely of pentelic marble it stands 1 49m high and 0 92m wide in the form of a naiskos with pilasters and a pediment featuring palmette acroteria the relief currently on display at the national.
Marble grave stele with a family group ca.
The subject represented by the sculpture is one not uncommon among these grave reliefs.
3 61 mb greek funeral stele with a seated woman and child walters 23176 jpg 1 153 1 800.
Id gs024 title head of a girl named philo.
956 kb grave stele 03 pushkin jpg 1 777 3 269.
The iconography of deceased maidens on attic grave reliefs of the classical period hesperia.
Id gs010 title sphinx figure from top of an attic grave stele ca.
Grave stele 02 pushkin jpg 1 051 1 447.
The attic grave relief of thraseas and euandria from the middle of the fourth century bc is kept in the pergamonmuseum and belongs to the antikensammlung berlin.
Lament and death instead of marriage.
Although the origin of the stela is unknown a stone slab either decorated or undecorated was commonly used as a tombstone both in the east and in grecian lands as early as mycenae.