Funerary Stele of Aurelia Artemis

Description This stele (tombstone) commemorates the death of a woman named Aurelia Artemis. The use of costly, imported marble and the woman's elaborate dress suggest that she came from a wealthy family. The presence of a Greek inscription, as well as the woman's pose, point to a Greek family, possibly Christian, living in southern Egypt.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/09/1987	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
1/18/1989	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation

Exhibitions

• Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A.D.. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] Αὐρηλίαν Ἄρτεμειν θυγατέρα Πασίωνος τὴν γλυκυτάτην ἀσύνκριτον ἐν πᾶσι· εὐψύχι; [Translation] Farewell Aurelia Artemis, Pasion’s daughter, incomparably sweetest among all.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923