Detail of a Cypriot Limestone Funerary Monument of a Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Limestone funerary monument of a woman

Medium; Technique: Limestone

Culture: Roman, Cypriot

Period: Early Imperial

Date: 1st century A.D.

Dimensions: H. 43 in. (109.2 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.2490

On View


Description:

The deceased woman is accompanied by a servant girl who holds a jewelry chest in her right hand; a round object that resembles a mirror hangs from her left arm. The tight curls that frame the woman's face were made fashionable in the court of the Flavian emperors at Rome toward the end of the first century A.D. The face of the plinth on which the servant stands is inscribed: "Zoilos of Golgoi made [it]."

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