Grave stele with Hoplite Battle Scene, Classical, ca. 390 B.C., Greek, Attic, Marble, Pentelic, Overall: 21 x 16in. (53.4 x 40.6cm), Stone Sculpture, The ashes of every Athenian who fell in battle were returned to the city and buried in the state funerary ground in the outer Kerameikos at the northwest edge of the city, just outside the walls. The grieving family might also erect a stele--usually with a battle scene--in its own burial precinct to honor the fallen soldier
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