Harvard Art Museums > 1977.216.2186: Funerary Stele Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Funerary Stele , 1977.216.2186,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/312256. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1977.216.2186 Title Funerary Stele Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 14-68 CE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe Period Roman Imperial period, Early Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/312256 Physical Descriptions Medium Greek island marble Technique Carved Dimensions 65.5 x 38.8 x 10 cm (25 13/16 x 15 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Massachusetts Historical Society, 1910 Accession Year 1977 Object Number 1977.216.2186 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990106 Funerary Stele The relief is broken away and is missing at a rough line of the two adults' heads. The figures are in the inset relief. The area below is blank, prepared for the inscription. The boy's face is somewhat weathered. A man in a himation stands facing, at the left; a woman in a chiton and himation stands next to him. At the extreme right is a small boy in a short tunic and a cloak around his left shoulder. The boy holds a handful of fruits in his cloak with his left hand. The tombstone belongs to a widespread class of funerary monuments that represents the last manifestations of tradition going back through the big East Greek Hellenistic tomb reliefs to the last Attic stelai of the decade before their traditional curtailment in 317 B.C. Tombstones such as this example were commonly found in the Greek islands (the Aegean), Crete, sometimes North Africa including Egypt, and, above all, the cities along and inland on the western coast of Asia Minor. They also appear in Macedonia and Thrace, but these regions soon changed to a form of monument with busts or just heads in rectangular and circular (tondo) frames. A good representative collection of these reliefs is in Leiden, including examples from Smyrna and Ilion on the plain of Troy (Bastet, Brunsting, 1982, I, pp. 86-93, nos. 163-173, II, pls. 44-47). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 118, no. 106 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
