id:			107364
accession number:	1925.1342
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Gravestone in the Form of a Lekythos, 300s BCE. Greece, Athens. Marble; overall: 53.7 cm (21 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1925.1342

title:				Gravestone in the Form of a Lekythos
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creation date:			300s BCE
creation date earliest:		-400
creation date latest:		-300
current location:		102C Greek
creditline:			Gift of J. H. Wade
copyright:			

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culture:	Greece, Athens
technique:	marble
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 53.7 cm (21 1/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	ΛΥΣΙΣΤΡΑΤΗ ΚΛΕ...ΤΙΜΟΦΩΝ
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Coming of Age in Ancient Greece
	opening date:   2003-08-23T00:00:00
	<i>Coming of Age in Ancient Greece</i>. Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH (organizer) (August 23-December 5, 2003); Onassis Foundation Cultural Center (January 20-April 15, 2004); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (May 21-August 1, 2004); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (September 14-December 5, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Zoumboulakis, sold to Brummer Gallery
	date: ?-1925
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	Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1925-1926
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1926-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
	page number: 	P2144
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/26248

	Howard, Rossiter "Recent Greek Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 13, no. 3 (March 1926)
	page number: 	p. 54, 59
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136913

	<em>Art News </em>(May 15, 1926)
	page number: 	p. 13
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	Bieber, Margarete. "An Attic Tombstone in the Art Institute of Chicago," <em>Art in America </em>30<em> </em>(April 1942).
	page number: 	p. 109
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	Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," <em>Art in America</em> Vol. 31 no. 3(July 1943).
	page number: 	pp. 112-126, fig. 9
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	Bieber, Margarete. <em>The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age</em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
	page number: 	p. 9, fig. 2
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	Price, Theodora Hadzisteliou. <em>Kourotrophos</em>: <em>Cults and Representations of the Greek Nursing Deities</em>. Leiden: Brill, 1978.
	page number: 	p. 52, no. 550, fig. 40
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	Neils, Jenifer. "The Orestes Sarcophagus and Other Classical Marbles." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 4 (1984).
	page number: 	p. 103
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159856

	Clairmont, Christoph W., and Alexander Conze. <em>Classical Attic Tombstones</em>. Kilchberg, Switzerland: Akanthus, 1993.
	page number: 	Pp. 455-456, cat. 3.745 (vol. 3).
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	Neils, Jenifer, John Howard Oakley, Katherine Hart, and Lesley A. Beaumont.<em> Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past.</em> New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2003.
	page number: 	fig. 111, pp. 189, 296
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