Marble statue of a woman
Unknown
late 4th century BCE · Marble, Pentelic · Greek and Roman Art
This large figure probably was part of a group of funerary statues that were placed within a deep, covered niche. The back of the drapery is not carefully finished as it would not have been visible. The production of such elaborate grave monuments with large-scale statues came to an end in Attica in 317 or 307 B.C. when Demetrios of Phaleron, the governor of Athens, issued a law prohibiting ostentatious display by wealthy families.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 4th century BCE
- Medium
- Marble, Pentelic
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1910
