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Grave stele of a mounted warrior

about 490–480 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsHeight x width: 81 x 81.5 cm (31 7/8 x 32 1/16 x 8 in.)
500 LBS DV
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number99.339
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: From just outside Thebes about twenty minutes walk on the road to the Cabirion in the fold of the hill to your left); 1899: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)
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.
Grave stele with  woman holding a mirror
Late 5th–early 4th century B.C.