Marble Akroterion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007

Marble akroterion
Greek, Attic, ca. 350-325 BC
Said to be from Attica
Restored: ends of all but one palmette leaf, parts of the volutes

Accession # 20.198

Both faces of the akroterion are carved. The front is decorated in relief with a double palmette, its stems rising in the form of spiral tendrils from a bed of acanthus leaves; the flower at the top once had a painted stem. A similar decoration on the back was left unfinished.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.