The Grave Stele of Hegeso, from the Kerameikos, about 410–400 BC
Hegeso seated, taking a piece of jewellery from a box held by a servant girl, on her grave monument from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. It is one of the few Athenian objects that names a woman and was made to be seen — and the servant, who is not named, is standing.
The stele is carved in Pentelic marble around 410 BC and now stands in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. It shows what an Athenian citizen family wanted said about its women in public: wealth, propriety, the interior of the house. It also shows the limit of that world at the same moment, because the woman doing the work has no name on the stone. Both halves matter to any account of where influence was actually available. See influence and intrigue in classical Athens.
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