Restored: ends of all but one palmette leaf, parts of the volutes
Both faces of the akroterion are carved. The front is decorated in relief with a double palmette, its stems rising in the form of spiral tendrils from a bed of acanthus leaves; the flower at the top once had a painted stem. A similar decoration on the back was left unfinished.
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Title:Marble akroterion
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 350–325 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Marble
Dimensions:H. through center 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) greatest width as restored 28 3/4 in. (73 cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number:20.198
Said to be from Attica
[Until 1920, with G.S. Yanakopoulos, Paris]; acquired in 1920, purchased from G.S. Yanakopoulos.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 261–62, fig. 184, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 131, 136, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 131, 136, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 142, 281, pl. 121a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 96, p. 64, pls. 78b, 79b–d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Camp, John. 1996. "The 'Marathon Stone' in New York." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 31: p. 9, fig. 7
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Milleker, Elizabeth J. 2003. Light on Stone: Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Photographic Essay. p. 99, pl. 33, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Freyer-Schauenburg, Brigitte. 2005. "Doppelseitige Anthemien." Aeimnestos: Miscellanea di Studi per Mario Cristofani, Benedetta Adembri, ed. p. 127, figs. 5–6, Firenze: Centro Di.
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Hemingway, Seán. 2021. How to Read Greek Sculpture. no. 26, pp. 34, 116–17, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Zanker, Paul. 2022. Afterlives : Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 33, pp. 112–13, New York: Scala Publishers.
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