EditorialWooden Grave Marker. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 36.3 x 28 cm (14 5/16 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 3'high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and heightening on paperboard.
EditorialLog Marker. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in.) Original IAD Object: 4 3/4" long; 1 3/4" wide. Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper.
EditorialLog Marker. Dated: 1939. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.) Original IAD Object: 4 3/8" long; 1 1/2" in diameter; 10 1/4" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard.
EditorialLog Marker. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: head: 4 3/4" long; 4" in diameter; handle: 29 1/2" long. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard.
EditorialBase of etruscan grave marker decorated with reliefs about funerary games. Early 5th century BC. Detail. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialBoundary-marker with Oscan inscription. Used to mark the confines of sacred area. Decorated with reliefs depicting helmeted goddess Athena and a boar. Terracotta. 300-100 BC. From a tomb near Capua. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialPhoenician art. Cyprus. 4th century BC. Classical Period. Grave marker depicting two men reclining at a banquet (top) and a couple (bottom). Limestone. It comes from Golgoi (Cyprus). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialGreek art. Greece. Upper part of the marble stele (grave marker) of Kallidemos. Date ca. 350-325 BC. Comes from Attica. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialLead Ingot with Monograms, 6th century, Byzantine, Lead, 1/4 ? 1 7/16 ? 1 7/16 in., 2.8oz. (0.7 ? 3.7 ? 3.6 cm, 80g), Metalwork-Lead, Stamped with a Greek monogram that most likely reads 'eparch of the city,' this three-ounce ingot is probably a commod...
EditorialMarble stele (grave marker) of Sostratos, Late Classical, ca. 375?350 B.C., Greek, Attic, Marble, Pentelic, Overall: 54 1/8 x 24 x 6 in. (137.5 x 61 x 15.2 cm), Stone Sculpture, The inscription at the top of the stele informs us that it commemorates So...
EditorialDouble-Sided Tombstone, 10th century and dated A.H. 646/ A.D. 1248?49, Attributed to Egypt, Marble; carved, H. 22 1/16 in. (56 cm), Stone, This marble tombstone is carved on both sides: on the side on view, a Qur'anic verse (Sura 3:18) is inscribed in ...
EditorialMarble stele (grave marker) of a youth and little girl with capital and finial in the form of a sphinx, Archaic, ca. 530 B.C., Greek, Attic, Marble, total H. 13 ft. 10 11/16 in. (423.4 cm), Stone Sculpture, Inscribed on the base: to dear Me[gakles], on...
EditorialTerracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), Late Classical, ca. 340?330 B.C., Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 36 5/8 in. (93 cm), Vases, On the body, above, obverse, male deity adjudicating between Persephone and Aphr...
EditorialMarble fragment of a stele (grave marker) of a youth, Late Classical, mid-4th century B.C., Greek, Marble, Pentelic ?, Overall: 41 9/16 x 13 1/4 x 2 3/4in. (105.5 x 33.7 x 7cm), Stone Sculpture, Inscribed at the top of the slab, [son] of Erasinos.
EditorialTwo clown costumes, red and black, n.d., graphite, red and black marker, blue and gray wash, mounted, sheet: 8 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (22.6 x 23.8 cm), Drawings, Sergey Sudeykin (Russian, Smolensk 1882?1946 Nyack).
EditorialCarnelian ring stone, Late Republican or Imperial, 1st century B.C.?3rd century A.D., Roman, Carnelian, Length: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm), Gems, Muse seated on a cippus (tomb marker) holding a mask.
EditorialLimestone grave marker, Classical, 4th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 49 x 31 1/2in. (124.5 x 80cm), Stone Sculpture, Two men reclining at a banquet are represented in the upper panel, while a couple seen from the waist up fill the space be...
EditorialLimestone funerary cippus (tomb marker), Imperial, 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Limestone, H.: 24 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (63.2 x 26.7 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, Only one other funerary cippus of this type is known, but the conventions used are simil...
EditorialLimestone funerary cippus, Imperial, ca. 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Limestone, H.: 17 15/16 in. (45.6 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, The inscription on this poorly-made cylindrical cippus can be clearly read. It has long been taken to be the gra...
Editorial??????, Inro with Woman and Attendant; Man Reading Characters on a Stone Road Marker (reverse), Edo period (1615?1868), early 19th century, Japan, Four cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver, and color (iroko) togidashimaki-e, hiramaki-e, cut-out gold...
EditorialShi yanagi ni mayudama no hoshiizuru zu, Four: cottonballs blooming on a willow., 1814., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 13.9 x 18.3 cm., Print shows a man and a woman standing next to a grave marker and a willow tree with rice cakes on the branches during ...
EditorialShi yanagi ni mayudama no hoshiizuru zu, Four: cottonballs blooming on a willow., 1814., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 13.9 x 18.3 cm., Print shows a man and a woman standing next to a grave marker and a willow tree with rice cakes on the branches during ...
EditorialBase of etruscan grave marker decorated with reliefs about funerary games. Early 5th century BC. Detail. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialBoundary-marker with Oscan inscription. Used to mark the confines of sacred area. Decorated with reliefs depicting helmeted goddess Athena and a boar. Terracotta. 300-100 BC. From a tomb near Capua. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialPhoenician art. Cyprus. 4th century BC. Classical Period. Grave marker depicting two men reclining at a banquet (top) and a couple (bottom). Limestone. It comes from Golgoi (Cyprus). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialGreek art. Greece. Upper part of the marble stele (grave marker) of Kallidemos. Date ca. 350-325 BC. Comes from Attica. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.