Hanging on the wall was a marble grave stele from Greece, fourth century B.C., of a young girl.
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.
The room exemplifies Islamic architecture with floral motifs, calligraphy, zellij and carrara marble, and the stele is in finely worked cedar wood and stucco.
In nearby Tompkins Square Park stands a nine-foot stele of pink marble depicting a boy and girl gazing over the water.
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.
There are lamps that were once fueled with perfumed oil, veined marble pillars that evoke a court of honor in an Algerian palace, a stele taken from a Turkish cemetery, a small fountain.
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.
This secret lair had been decorated with statues cut from the marble that the Persians had brought with them in 490BC ready to carve a victory stele when they had defeated Athens, a triumph they conspicuously failed to achieve.
