Finial of a marble stele (grave marker) ca. 525 B.C. Greek, Attic The pair of volutes on this finial is carved with extraordinary sensitivity. The crowning element, which is missing, may have been a palmette or a sphinx. The latter is less likely, given the limited size of the volute block. The reported discovery of this piece near the beautiful fragment with the head of a youth raises the possibility that both originally belonged to the same stele.. Finial of a marble stele (grave marker) 254511 Greek, Attic, Finial of a marble stele (grave marker), ca. 525 B.C., Marble, Parian, H. 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1944 (44.11.5)

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Finial of a marble stele (grave marker) ca. 525 B.C. Greek, Attic The pair of volutes on this finial is carved with extraordinary sensitivity. The crowning element, which is missing, may have been a palmette or a sphinx. The latter is less likely, given the limited size of the volute block. The reported discovery of this piece near the beautiful fragment with the head of a youth raises the possibility that both originally belonged to the same stele.. Finial of a marble stele (grave marker) 254511 Greek, Attic, Finial of a marble stele (grave marker), ca. 525 B.C., Marble, Parian, H. 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1944 (44.11.5)

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