Funerary stele with a symposium scene
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Funerary stele with a symposium scene
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Published 2018-08-21T12:14:53+00:00
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The symposium scene relief on this stele depicts a bearded figure, leaning back and holding a crutch, and may possibly be portraying the deceased individual. A woman, who could be his wife is seated on his lap. The stele is crowned with a lion in relief, a common apotropaic symbol of funerary monuments of the period. In Cyprus representations of symposia were associated with funerary ritual earlier than in the rest of the Hellenic world.
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| Date published | 21/08/2018 |
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| Title | Funerary stele with a symposium scene |
| Date | beginning of the 5th century BC |
| Accession | C. 235 1935 |
| Period | Ancient |
| Medium | Limestone |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Cyprus Archaeological Museum |
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