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Leukothea Grave Stele

An East Greek grave monument depicting a tender family scene.

Although named in the eighteenth century after Leukothea the white goddess or sea goddess, the domesticity of the scene indicates that this is the funerary monument of a real person, not a deity.

The deceased is a seated figure, dignified by the elaborate throne-like chair complete with footstool, but humanised by the domestic wool basket under her chair. In front of her, a young woman and children hold gifts for the dead woman

Number: 
92
Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Rome, Villa Albani 980

Size: 
1.35m
Accession: 

Purchased 1884 from Malpieri of Rome

References: 

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 94 (n.1), pl. 26.4
Johansen: the Attic Grave Reliefs of the Classical Period (1951), fig.74
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 20, no.66
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.60

Date: 
Early C5 BCE
Provenance: 

Unknown

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