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Greek relief, Musee Lapidaire, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France

Funerary stele of Aischra, detail, with relief of a young woman representing the deceased wearing hypendyma (tunic), himation (cloak) and veil, seated on diphros (stool), holding a box with a servant girl and another seated woman veiling her face in a gesture of mourning, Hellenistic Greek, late 3rd century BC, from Rhodes, in the Musee Lapidaire, or Lapidary Museum, in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. The museum houses archaeological artefacts from the Collection Archeologique de la Fondation Calvet, from the Musee Calvet. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Funerary stele of Aischra, detail, with relief of a young woman representing the deceased wearing hypendyma (tunic), himation (cloak) and veil, seated on diphros (stool), holding a box with a servant girl and another seated woman veiling her face in a gesture of mourning, Hellenistic Greek, late 3rd century BC, from Rhodes, in the Musee Lapidaire, or Lapidary Museum, in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. The museum houses archaeological artefacts from the Collection Archeologique de la Fondation Calvet, from the Musee Calvet. Picture by Manuel Cohen