CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A CYPRIOT LIMESTONE FUNERARY RELIEF
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
From the necropolis at Golgoi, depicting a funerary banquet scene, the deceased reclining, propped up on his left elbow resting upon a pillow, a phiale in his left hand, wearing a long-sleeved chiton and himation, a crown of laurel in his curly hair, with a spade-shaped beard, his right hand clasping the hand of his wife seated at his right, depicted diminutively perched on his knees, wearing a long-sleeved ribbed dress and holding an object up to her shoulder
27 1/16 in. (68.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acquired 1873-1878.

Literature

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Stone Sculptures of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 14, 18 and 19, New York, 1904, no. 1412, p. 92.

Lot Essay

For a similar funerary stele with banquet scene, said to be from the necropolis at Golgoi, see no. 351 in Karageorghis, et al., Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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