Marble cavetto capital
This capital was part of a funerary or votive stele; it surmounted a tall shaft and supported a separately carved finial—presumably a sphinx. The cavetto capital has a more elongated shape than the earlier example exhibited nearby.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1917
Mid-6th century B.C.
Marble, hymettian
63.3 x 63.3cm
17.230.6
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection