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Funerary Relief with Girl, Bird and Fan
(Ancient Greece )
The inscription on the left identifies the girl as Sosibolis, who holds a bird and a fan. This funerary relief is much worked, and the bottom is broken.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Jean Mikas, Paris and Athens, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1992, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P432; said to be from Paros, Greece]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 32 11/16 x W: 20 1/16 in. (83 x 51 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
23.38