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Grave stele

about 325 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueMarble, from Mt. Hymettos near Athens
DimensionsOverall: 82 x 46 cm (32 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
107 LBS mounted DV add 5 for wall cleat
Credit LineClassical Department Exchange Fund
Accession number1979.511
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1926: Ernest Brummer Collection and Brummer Gallery, New York (acquired by Joseph and Ernest Brummer in 1926); by 1979 with Galerie Koller, Rämistrasse 8, Zurich, Switzerland (auction of the Ernest Brummer Collection, October 19, 1979, lot 609); purchased by MFA from Galerie Koller on November 14, 1979
Head of a bearded man
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
Head of Aphrodite
about A.D. 138–192
Head of Herakles
about 325 B.C. (?)
Goddess, perhaps Athena
4th century B.C.
young female
about 350–325 B.C.