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
Rome, Villa Albani 980
Purchased 1884 from Malpieri of Rome
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
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