Currently not on view
Grave stele of Leonide,
1st century CE
Roman
2000-97
Information
Title
Grave stele of Leonide
Dates
1st century CE
Medium
Coarse-grained whitish marble with long, dark gray streaks
Dimensions
27.6 x 16.6 x 7.1 cm. (10 7/8 x 6 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
letter h.: 1.6 cm (5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2000-97
Place Excavated
Turkey
Inscription
Below the relief panel is a two-line inscription in letters neatly, yet shallowly, inscribed: (see unicode) [Farewell, griefless Leonide . . .]
Culture
Period
Purchased in Seleuceia in Pieria in 1937 by the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch; given to the University by the Committee, probably by 1941.
- Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III: the excavations 1937–1939, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941)., cat. no. 83; pl. 30
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 57
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 60 (2001): p. 66-93., p. 80
