Funerary Stela
| Object Number: | 38-19-1 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Greek |
| Provenience: | Turkey (Country) Smyrna (Turkey) Ionia |
| Period: | Hellenistic Period |
| Date Made: | -99 BCE-1 BCE |
| Early Date: | -99 |
| Late Date: | -1 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Limestone |
| Iconography: | Banquet Funeral Woman Horse Rider Greek Inscription |
| Inscription Language: | Ancient Greek Language |
| Height: | 61.5 cm |
| Width: | 33.7 cm |
| Thickness: | 6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Menander T. Constant, 1938 |
Description
Broken across top of scene in rectangle, i.e. top missing. In two registers, three shallow sunken areas in which reliefs: above, A: rectangle with funeral banquet scene. below, B: at left, narrow arched area with draped female standing en face. C: square at right, horse and rider (R). Two inscriptions, one under upper register; other, under mourning figure, is illegible.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 33, no. 24 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Tracy, Stephen, and Bodel, John. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist.. Rome. American Academy in Rome. pg. 211-212 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 212 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Stolyarik, Yelena, and Romano, Irene B., and Romano, David G., and DeVries, Keith R., and White, Donald J. 1995. The Ancient Greek World:The Rodney S. Young Gallery.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 34 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Mobius, H., and Pfuhl, Ernst. "Corpus of Eastern Greek Gravestones".. Vol. 1. pg. 152 Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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