ANCIENT ART
SCULPTURE | GREECE | Funeral sculpture
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1. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funerary statue of Kroisos. Detail.
Marble. Late 6th century B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
2. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funerary statue of Kroisos.
Marble. Late 6th century B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
3. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Marathon warrior.
Funerary stele of Aristion by Aristocles.
Marble. Late 6th century B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
4. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Stele of Aristion.
Marble. Late 6th century B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
5. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funeral stele of a girl, the so-called “stele of Giustiniani.”
Parian marble. Ca. 460 B.C.
Height 142 cm.
Berlin, State Museums.
6. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funeral stele of a girl. Detail.
Marble. Mid-5th century B.C.
Berlin, State Museums.
7. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funeral stele of a man.
Parian marble. Ca. 450 B.C.
Height 149 cm.
Berlin, State Museums.
8. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Grave relief representing the worship of the dead heroes. Detail.
Blue-gray marble. Ca. 550—530 B.C.
Height 87 cm.
Berlin, State Museums, Collection of Classical Antiquities.
9. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Grave relief representing the worship of the dead heroes.
Blue-gray marble. Ca. 550—530 B.C.
Height 87 cm.
Berlin, State Museums, Collection of Classical Antiquities.
10. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Front panel of Attic sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy. Detail.
Proconnesus or Hymettius marble.
2nd—3rd centuries A.D.
Inv. MR 10710.
Brescia, Santa Giulia Civic Museum.
11. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Front panel of Attic sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy.
Proconnesus or Hymettius marble.
2nd—3rd centuries A.D.
Inv. MR 10710.
Brescia, Santa Giulia Civic Museum.
12. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funeral banquet.
Funerary stele.
Marble. About 470-460 B.C.
Inv. No. 1947 (Cat. Mendel 578).
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Grave stele with family portraits and with a Greek inscription from Thessalonica.
Marble. 2nd—3rd cent. C.E.
Inv. No. 194 T.
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Stele of Captain Julius Callineicus.
Early 3rd century A.D.
Inv. No. 3872 T.
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.
15. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Gravestone of Demetrius, represented as a naval soldier killed in fight on the ship.
Marble. Ca. 370 B.C.
Inv. No. 522.
Munich, Glyptotek.
16. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Hercules kills the Nemean lion (detail).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Marble. Greece, 5th cent. B.C.
Rome, Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva.
17. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Hercules kills the Nemean lion.
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Marble. Greece, 5th cent. B.C.
Rome, Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva.
18. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funerary monument to an actor family of Gaios Silios Bathyllos.
Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. A.D.
Inv. No. 28667.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei.
19. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funerary monument to an unknown woman.
Parian marble.
2nd cent. B.C.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei.
20. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Funerary monument to an unknown woman.
Parian marble. 2nd cent. B.C.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei.
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