Burial steles

[Martin Kealey]

Considering the practice of the Romans to paint their statues, is there any evidence that figures on burial steles were painted? Might this practice have done, at least as long as there were loved ones of the interred willing to keep up maintenance?

[MeinPanzer]

Considering the practice of the Romans to paint their statues, is there any evidence that figures on burial steles were painted? Might this practice have done, at least as long as there were loved ones of the interred willing to keep up maintenance?

Yes, in the Graeco-Roman world it was standard to paint funerary stelae, just most art carved in relief or in the round. There are several examples from all over the Greek world that have remnants of paint still on them, and I think the same is true for Roman examples.