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Keywords: Greek - Funeral Stele with a Seated Woman and Child - Walters 23176.jpg A young mother who may have died from complications during childbirth is commemorated by her family in a scene of tenderness and poignancy This simple funerary stele upright stone marker depicts a quiet moment between a mother the deceased and her two children She inclines her head to gaze intently at the tiny infant in her lap whom she cradles with both hands as her older son stands before her holding a pet bird by its wings late 5th century BC Classical marble with brown patina cm 83 6 51 4 11 2 accession number 23 176 6369 Joseph Brummer New York 1924 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1924 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Children in ancient Greek funerary art Ancient Greek funerary steles Statues of sitting women in the United States Reliefs of mothers with children
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