On the first floor of the new museum there is a considerable display of massive sarcophagi, which are truly works of art. Here we have an illustration of the artisans who made such things.
Of course they didn’t just do burial boxes they did steles to honor the dead, and statues to honor the gods as well… They were busy carving marble!
This is a headless statue of many breasted Artemis (or alternatively those things are eggs or bull’s testicles— in any case all emblems of fertility as she was the goddess of fertility.
Perhaps a statue of Apollo, or could be Alexander?
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