CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTRUY B.C.

Details

A GREEK MARBLE STELE FRAGMENT
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTRUY B.C.
26 3/8 in. (67 cm.) high

Provenance

Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, Auktion XXII, 13 May 1961, lot 14.
Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine and Viking Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 12th June 1967, lot 112.
Private collection, Liechtenstein.

Literature

B. Freyer-Schauenburg, 'Zum Grabrelief der Pristering Choirine', in Festschrift für Jale Inan Armagani, Istanbul, 1989, pp. 59-65.
C. W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones, 1993, vol. II, p. 465, no. 2.389e.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The above fragment comes from a funerary stele. Normally the deceased was shown seated, with a popular scene being the dexiosis, or handshake, where a husband, wife or family member say goodbye to the departed. In this example a female sits on a stool, her left hand on her lap, the right one stretched out to clasp the hand of a standing figure, now missing. The composition of this funerary stele is closely paralleled to one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv. no. 07.286.109, and another at the Getty Villa, Malibu, Inv. no. 79.AA.216.

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