Couple, bridal bed, Louvre Myr268

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Artist/Maker Workshop of Nicostratos

Scene of anacalypsis: husband drawing aside his newly wed wife's veil in the bridal room. Terracotta, 150–100 BC. From tomb #100 in Myrina, now in Turkey.

Dimensions H. 28 cm (11 in.), W. 33 cm (12 ¾ in.)

Credit line Excavations of the French School at Athens, 1883

Accession number Myr 268

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 38

Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

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