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[Photographer unknown].

[Tomb of Hegeso].

Stock Code
61611
1885
£35

Nineteenth-century albumen print depicting the grave stele of Hegeso. The near-complete stele made from Pentelic marble is in the form of a naiskos (small temple) and shows the deceased woman, identified by an inscription as 'Hegeso, daughter of Proxenos', seated and picking jewellery from a pyxis (box) held for her by a standing slave-girl. The relief was found in 1870 in the Kerameikos, the ancient cemetery of Athens, before being acquired by the National Archaeological Museum of Athens in 1884. Today a replica stands in situ, out of doors in the Kerameikos, while the original remains in the museum.

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Albumen print. Good tonal range and in fair condition.

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