Afterlives

Paul Zanker is former Dietrich von Bothmer Distinguished Research Scholar in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Roman Portraits: Sculptures in Stone and Bronze in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Roman Art: A Guide Through The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Collection.

• Director’s Foreword 7Acknowledgments 9Map 10INTRODUCTION 13I. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 15Funerary Ritual in the Visual Record • Funerary Monumentsof the Archaic PeriodII. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 47White-Ground Lekythoi • Private Funerary Monuments •Funerary Monuments of the Classical Period • Three Akroteriafrom Inscribed Grave StelaiIII. THE HELLENISTIC PEERIOD 117Taranto • Sculptures and Fragments from Free-StandingTarentine Funerary Monuments • Vases from Canosan Tombsin Daunia • Funerary Vases from Centuripe, Sicily • LucanianWarrior Graves • Grave Stelai and Funerary Vases fromAlexandria • Painted Grave Stelai from Alexandria • Hadra Vasesfrom Alexandria • Hellenistic Funerary Stele from Asia MinorCONCLUSION 177Bibliography 182Concordance 186Index of Names Inscribed on Works 186Index 187Credits and Copyright 192