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Painted Limestone Funerary Slab with a Soldier Standing at Ease

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

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Painted Limestone Funerary Slab with a Soldier Standing at Ease

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

~~Date:~~ c.275 BC
~~Style:~~ Hellenistic
~~Theme:~~ Panel and wall painting
~~Genre:~~ genre painting
~~Location:~~ Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
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A soldier wearing a long blue cloak stands alone, with a spear in his right hand and a tall ovoid shield at his left. Celtic groups from Europe migrated eastward in 279 B.C. and established independent kingdoms in Thrace and central Asia Minor. Known as Galatians, they were used extensively as mercenary soldiers. Inscriptions identifying at least three Galatian soldiers who must have served under the Ptolemies occur on loculus slabs in the rather simple tomb found in 1884.

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Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904

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Painted Limestone Funerary Slab with a Soldier Standing at Ease

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

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Painted Limestone Funerary Slab with a Soldier Standing at Ease

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