Athenian Sepulchral Marble Lekythos

Symbolic of a vessel to hold oil for a burial ritual, this jug shows a figure walking and two adult males with beards and a short hair wearing a himation (shawl). Sostratos sits on a klismos (ornate chair) and his feet rest on a footstool. His left hand signals a greeting or farewell, and his right hand grasps the hand of his son, Prokleides. This monument was a marker over a family burial, which lined the Street of Tombs in the Kerameikos Cemetery in Athens.