Funeral Stele with a Seated Woman and Child

late 5th century BCE (Classical)

51.4 cm 83.6 cm 11.2 cm

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A young mother, who may have died from complications during childbirth, is commemorated by her family in a scene of tenderness and poignancy. This simple funerary stele (upright stone marker) depicts a quiet moment between a mother (the deceased) and her two children. She incl...

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Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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