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Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa Valentine 2024 the book traces their subsequentJanet Burnett Grossman Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities, where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the millennia speaking the universal language of human grief. This illustrated catalogue presents fifty nine Greek