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Funerary marker in the form of an oil flask (lekythos)

c. 390 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsGreece
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsHeight: 115 cm (45 1/4 in.)
490 LBS DV
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman
Accession number63.1040
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1963, John J. Klejman (dealer; b. 1906 - d. 1995), New York; 1963, gift of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Klejman to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 1963)
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.