Xenokrateia ‘s Palmette Stele
Although no paint remains, scholars suggest that the empty space beneath the rosettes and the stele base was painted, perhaps with an image of Xenokrateia herself.
The stele is crowned by anthemion, with centrally placed calyx of akanthus leaves, from which volutes rise and terminate in half palmettes and blossoms. The anthemion is divided from the stele by a thin, plain taenia. The stele itself is decorated with two schematic rosettes comprised of concentric circles.
Between the taenia and rosettes, in three lines: Χ Η N O K Ρ A T E I A / E Υ K L E I Δ O Υ O I H Θ E N / Θ Υ Γ A T Η Ρ "Xenokrateia daughter of Eukleides from Oie"
Marble funerary stele
Late classical Period
About 350 BC
From Attica
Munich, Glyptothek
Xenokrateia ‘s Palmette Stele
Although no paint remains, scholars suggest that the empty space beneath the rosettes and the stele base was painted, perhaps with an image of Xenokrateia herself.
The stele is crowned by anthemion, with centrally placed calyx of akanthus leaves, from which volutes rise and terminate in half palmettes and blossoms. The anthemion is divided from the stele by a thin, plain taenia. The stele itself is decorated with two schematic rosettes comprised of concentric circles.
Between the taenia and rosettes, in three lines: Χ Η N O K Ρ A T E I A / E Υ K L E I Δ O Υ O I H Θ E N / Θ Υ Γ A T Η Ρ "Xenokrateia daughter of Eukleides from Oie"
Marble funerary stele
Late classical Period
About 350 BC
From Attica
Munich, Glyptothek