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Funerary Relief of Lysandra

Date

1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.

Medium

Asia Minor marble, blue-gray

Culture

Roman

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

Funerary relief with two main figures, a woman seated on the left and a man reclining on the right, and two smaller figures of a woman and a man standing in the foreground of the relief field. The main figures are grouped in a space between two columns and topped with an inscribed architrave with antefixes. The man lies on a sparsely decorated couch and sits in three-quarter profile, looking left. He wears a chiton with short sleeves and a himation draped over his left shoulder and forearm. He supports himself with his left arm, which rests on a cushion. He holds a cup in his left hand and a wreath in his raised right hand. He is beardless and wears a fillet in his hair. The woman, the deceased, sits on a throne in three-quarter view facing right. The throne is richly decorated with two sphinxes on the front leg and a third sphinx on the lower part of the armrest. She wears a long inner garment and a mantle covers her head and body. Her right arm is raised to the side of her face, her hand holds the mantle. Her left arm rests on her lap, where she holds an open rotulus (roll of parchment or papyrus). To the lower right is a three legged table with three round objects. In the upper background, a shelf holds a vessel, rectangular object, and a box with a bundle of rolls. To the lower left, the small-scale girl wears a long chiton and holds a kalathos (wool basket) in her right hand. The small boy on the right, dressed in a short chiton, stands with his right arm bent across his body and his left raised to touch his face, a gesture of mourning. The inscription identifies the woman as the deceased Lysandra.

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