A Marble Funerary Relief, Asia Minor , late 1st Century B.C.

carved in high relief with the figure of a woman in the guise of Pudicitia lifting her veil with her right hand, and wearing a chiton and enveloping himation, her hair arranged in a nodus above her forehead, a snake entwined around a tree at right, the upper register carved in low relief with a horse protome, a herm, and the figure of a child; remains of red and blue-green pigment.

Alexander Freiherr von Warsberg (1836-1889), Graz, Venice, and Vienna
Count Karl Lanckoronski (1848-1933), Vienna
Münzen & Medaillen, Basel, Kunstwerke der Antike, December 13th, 1969, no. 170, illus.

Andreas Linfert, Kunstzentren hellenistischer Zeit. Studien an weiblichen Gewandfiguren, Wiesbaden, 1976, p. 148, n. 589, no. 8
Ernst Pfuhl and Hans Möbius, Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs, Mainz, 1977, text vol. I, no. 426, pl. vol. 5, pl. 70
Henning Wrede, Die antike Herme, Mainz am Rhein, 1986, p. 47
Angelika Geyer, "Ein griechisches Grabrelief in Tarent," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, vol. 104, 1989, p. 13
Arachne. Datenbank und kulturelle Archive des Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik Köln und des Deutsches Archäologisches Instituts, no. 6958 (DAI negative no. 65.1022)
Triple Gallery, Bremgarten-Bern, Unsere Besten. Antike Skulpturen und Reliefs vereint mit Meisterzeichnungen von der Renaissance bis zur klassischen Moderne, Geburtstagsausstellung, May 23rd to June 30th, 2007, p. 14, no. 10, illus.

very good and as shown, note fresh minor chips to nodus, horse head, and hand of child, minor nicks and scratches elsewhere, thin layer of incrustation overall
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