Sentence examples for Grave stele from inspiring English sources

Hanging on the wall was a marble grave stele from Greece, fourth century B.C., of a young girl.

A quick memory of a weathered grave stele I had once seen in Macedonia -- depicting a father, mother, child and an overturned ship -- clinched the realization.

The pictures of a container for oil and a three-handled drinking cup were from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, and the picture of an inscribed grave stele was from the Piraeus Archaeological Museum.

Some of us asked at the time why the curators, who had been handed loans of almost mythic status — the "Kritios Boy," the "Grave Stele of Hegeso" — did so little with them.

There is no more moving image in the show than that of two women, one seated and one standing, facing each other in carved relief on a marble grave stele dated to the fourth century B.C.

In 2006, the Getty returned or promised to return four looted objects to Greece: a stele (grave marker), a marble relief, a gold funerary wreath, and a marble statue.

One object is the upper part of a stele, or grave marker, depicting a warrior and a youth and dating from the early part of the fourth century B.C.

In July of last year, the Getty also acceded to Greece's request that it return a large stele, or grave marker, it acquired in 1993 and a small marble relief bought by the museum's founder, the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, in 1955.

But perhaps the most important item in the room is an Ottoman tombstone, said to be the stele from the grave of Aziyadé herself, spirited away from a cemetery on the grounds of Topkapi Palace.

There are also traces found on the private commissions of grave stelae from the period, for example the "cat stele" from Aegina bears a distinct similarity to the figures N135 6.

For larger shipments, he hid his rolls of film under the stele of what he pretended was a family grave.