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Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier taking a kantharos from his attendant

Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier taking a kantharos from his attendant. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: Other: 14 13/16 × 9 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (37.6 × 24.4 × 8.6 cm) Other (Panel): 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (24.8 × 20 cm). Date: 2nd half of 3rd century B.C.. A boy with dark brown skin, standing at the left, holds out a black cup to a tall soldier in a long blue cloak, at the right. The boy holds a lance and supports the soldier's large oval shield against his chest. Almost all the preserved evidence for painting in the Hellenistic period comes from funerary monuments. Some like the vaulted tombs of Macedonia and Thrace show large scale figures and friezes. More modest painted stelai like the ones displayed here have been found in many places in the Eastern Meditereanean.
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Title: Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier taking a kantharos from his attendant
Caption: Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier taking a kantharos from his attendant. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: Other: 14 13/16 × 9 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (37.6 × 24.4 × 8.6 cm) Other (Panel): 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (24.8 × 20 cm). Date: 2nd half of 3rd century B.C.. A boy with dark brown skin, standing at the left, holds out a black cup to a tall soldier in a long blue cloak, at the right. The boy holds a lance and supports the soldier's large oval shield against his chest. Almost all the preserved evidence for painting in the Hellenistic period comes from funerary monuments. Some like the vaulted tombs of Macedonia and Thrace show large scale figures and friezes. More modest painted stelai like the ones displayed here have been found in many places in the Eastern Meditereanean.
Technique/material: Limestone, paint
Period: Hellenistic
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit: Album
Releases: ? Model Release: No - ? Property Release: No
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Image size: 3534 × 4072 px | 41.2 MB
Print size: 29.9 × 34.5 cm | 1391.3 × 1603.1 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: EUROPE • GREECE • GREEK AND ROMAN ART • HELLENISTIC • LIMESTONE • LIMESTONE, PAINT • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • MISCELLANEOUS-PAINTINGS • PAINTING • PAINTINGS • STELAE