Attic burial stele

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Attic burial stele from 2nd century CE, possibly during Hadrian or Antoninus Pius' reign, discovered in Athens near the hill of Philopappos, crafted from marble and housed at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels, Belgium. Captured with RealityCapture. A pediment crowns this stele, adorned with an antefix shaped like a palmette and acroteria, featuring an expansive rose window. Inside the niche, two pilasters frame a relief depicting a standing teenager from the front, clad in a chlamys on their left shoulder, holding a familiar pigeon in one hand and a bullet in the other. At the teenager's feet lies a long-haired Maltese spitz domesticated by Athenians, its right ankle surrounded by a prophylactic ring called periskelis. The entablature bears an inscription reading: "Mousonis, son of Demetrius, from Lamptrées deme."