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Title:Fragment of a marble grave stele of a woman
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 400–390 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Marble, Pentelic
Dimensions:H. 26 7/8 in. (68.2 cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1930
Object Number:30.11.3
Inscription: On the epistyle: "The daughter of [...]omenes"
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930–1931. "A Fragment of a Greek Stele from the Landsowne Collection." Materopolitan Museum Studies, 3: pp. 147–57, figs. 1-8, 10-11.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1936[1934]. A Guide to the Collections, Part 1: Ancient and Oriental Art, 2nd edn. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 78, 92, 231, pl. 71d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 78, pp. 52–53, pl. 63, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Forsyth, William Holmes and The International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art. 1974. "Acquisitions from the Brummer Gallery." The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sixth International Exhibition presented by C.I.N.O.A.. p. 2, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Clairmont, Christoph W. 1993. Classical Attic Tombstones, Vol. 2. no. 2.203, pp. 136–7, Kilchberg: Akanthus.
Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 185, Rome: American Academy in Rome.
Angelicoussis, Elizabeth. 2017. Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles, Vols. 1 & 2, Gerard M.-F. Hill, ed. no. 67, pp. 386–89, Munich: Hirmer Verlag.
Zanker, Paul. 2022. Afterlives : Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 16, pp. 70–71, New York: Scala Publishers.
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