Grave Relief of a Woman Depicted as a Muse

2nd century BC

42 cm 83 cm 14 cm

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The relief was made near Smyrna (present-day Izmir, Turkey), on the west coast of Asia Minor, and portrays the deceased as a Muse, as indicated by her pose and dress. On other representations of this type, the maiden holds a kithara, a stringed instrument that resembles a lyre...

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Summa Galeries, Los Angeles, CA, March 1980; Walters Art Museum, 1980, by purchase.
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en
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