Marble Grave Relief in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Marble Grave Relief
Athens
ca. AD 150

# 63-6-1

The deceased lady is shown in full frontal view. She wears a low polos headdress. It is likely that she has been intiated into the rites of Demeter / Ceres whose cult promised its followers a life after death. Her pose and dress are based on a familiar Greek prototype known as the the "small Herculaneum woman." The originally inscribed pediment and much of the frame are now missing.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.