Grave Stele
4th century BCE
27 15/16 x 18 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (71 x 47.7 x 9.5 cm)
Greek artist
Greece
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Pentelic marble
Credit Line:
Helen Barrett Montgomery Bequest
Accession Number:
1936.54
Location: Currently on view
This gravestone depicts the classic Greek funerary image of the dexiosis, or handshake, between a husband and wife. This motif either refers to a final farewell or is symbolic of a couple reunited in death. Athenian workshops probably mass produced these gravestones, which were then transported to other areas and inscribed with the names of the deceased at the time of purchase. On this stele, the names Kleitomache and Eumachos appear above the heads of the figures.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
Provenance
Dimarchion [city hall], Salamis, Greece, ca. 1900; Joseph Brummer, New York (dealer); purchased from him by the Gallery in 1936
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Article Scope: Reproduction only.
Susan Dodge Peters, ed.
Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
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Article Title: A Greek Gravestone Acquired by the Gallery.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Memorial Art Gallery.
Gallery Notes.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
Issue Date: November 1936.
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Article Scope: Reproduction only.
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
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Article Author: Urdahl, Lloyd B..
Article Title: An Attic gravestone from Salamis.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Porticus.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
Volume Number: 1
Issue Date: 1978.
Page Number: 8-12
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Alexander Conze.
Die attischen Grabreliefs.
Berlin: W. Spemann, 1893-1922.
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Article Scope: Mention.
Jiri Frel.
Les sculpteurs attiques anonymes, 430-300.
Prague: Universita Karlova, 1969.
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Inscriptiones graecae: consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Borussicae editae.
Berlin, 1940.
Volume Number: II/III, part 2
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Maria Salta.
Attische Grabstelen mit Inschriften.
Tubingen, Germany, 1991.
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