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Grave Stele of Antonina

Date

A.D. 216–217

Medium

Asia Minor marble

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Grave stele of a young girl. The stele tapers considerably toward the top and is crowned by a heavy projecting pediment that has central and side akroteria decorated with palmettes. The pediment has two lancet-shaped leaves on each spandrel and a small disk at center. Below the pediment, a female figure, in frontal position, stands on a projecting ledge. She wears a long chiton, holding objects in both hands (in her left, perhaps a bouquet with stalk of grain and in her right, a pomegranate?). Her hair falls down bilaterally with braid at top. Upper part of field below relief has an inscription in Greek identifying the deceased as Antonina, a foster child.

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