Detail of the Marble Funerary Lekythos of Aristomache in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache

Period: Late Classical

Date: ca. 375–350 BCE

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Marble, Pentelic

Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949

Object Number: 49.11.4

Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike
Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle

The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614