Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and little girl with capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
unknown (Greek (ancient))
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Date
-530--520Description
Overall view of carved figures of youth and little girl; The stele is thought to be from Attica. The inscription on the base reads, "to dear Me[gakles], on his death, his father with his dear mother set [me] up as a monument". It was pieced together from various fragment acquisitions between 1911 and 1951.
Type of Work
stele; relief (sculpture)Subject
death or burial, funerary art, human figure, mythology (Classical), Archaic (Greek)
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