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Funerary stele of a woman

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Description: Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
When Eupheros was buried, there were likely not many graves in the immediate vicinity marked with stelai as elaborate as his (fig. 54; see also the map at fig. 8). But his monument was soon joined by others—not just that of Lissos, but stelai decorated with relief sculpture. Just across the path from Eupheros and Lissos, in another family enclosure, stood a stele sculpted with a woman gazing into a mirror (fig. 55), an earlier version of the same imagery found on Pausimache’s monument (see fig....
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.76-79

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