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Painted Limestone Funerary Stele with a Woman in Childbirth

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

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Painted Limestone Funerary Stele with a Woman in Childbirth

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

~~Date:~~ c.300 BC
~~Style:~~ Classical
~~Theme:~~ Panel and wall painting
~~Genre:~~ genre painting
~~Location:~~ Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
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The dying woman leans back, supported on either side by an attendant. Her torso and arms are naked, while two garments—one reddish and one pink—cover her lower body. The composition and subject of the painting derive from Classical Greek grave reliefs. This stele was found in the same underground tomb as the adjacent tomb marker and it probably once served as a funerary monument above ground.

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Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904

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Painted Limestone Funerary Stele with a Woman in Childbirth

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

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