Director’s Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 9 Map 10 INTRODUCTION 13 I. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 15 Funerary Ritual in the Visual Record • Funerary Monuments of the Archaic Period II. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 47 White-Ground Lekythoi • Private Funerary Monuments • Funerary Monuments of the Classical Period • Three Akroteria from Inscribed Grave Stelai III. THE HELLENISTIC PEERIOD 117 Taranto • Sculptures and Fragments from Free-Standing Tarentine Funerary Monuments • Vases from Canosan Tombs in Daunia • Funerary Vases from Centuripe, Sicily • Lucanian Warrior Graves • Grave Stelai and Funerary Vases from Alexandria • Painted Grave Stelai from Alexandria • Hadra Vases from Alexandria • Hellenistic Funerary Stele from Asia Minor CONCLUSION 177 Bibliography 182 Concordance 186 Index of Names Inscribed on Works 186 Index 187 Credits and Copyright 192
