stela;
gravestone;
relief
- Museum number
- 2007,5001.1
- Description
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Marble grave stele of a priestess named Choirine in an inscription. The woman faces to her left wearing a sleeved chiton, peplos, and an himation. She holds a large temple key in her right hand. Probably Pentelic marble.
- Production date
- 370BC-360BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 540 millimetres
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Weight: 16 kilograms
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Width: 285 millimetres
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Depth: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess, Princeton and Oxford 2007, 232.
- Location
- On display (Room 19 - Greece: Athens, Display Case 2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2022 19 May – 25 Sept, London, British Museum, G35, Feminine Power
2022 - 2023 8 Dec – 27 Aug, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Feminine Power
2023-2024 27 Sep - 14 Jan, Madrid, Caixaforum, Feminine Power
2024 20 Feb - 09 June, Barcelona, Caixaforum, Feminine Power
2024 17 Jul – 27 Oct, Seville, Caixaforum, Feminine Power
2024 -2025 04 Dec – 23 Mar, Zaragoza, Caixaforum, Feminine Power
2025 07 May – 07 Sep, Valencia, Caixaforum, Feminine Power
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired in Eleusis in 1819 by the French Rear Admiral E.Halgan (1771-1852). It then passed into collection of Francois Lenormant. It has more recently passed through the Swiss and London markets and was last in the property of Carlo-Maria Fallani, Geneva.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2007,5001.1
