This fragment from an Attic pedimented grave stele of the mid-4th c. BC depicts two female figures in a farewell gesture. Inscriptions in the horizontal frame above the scene identify the seated figure as ΣΩΣΙΠΑΤΡΑ (Sosipatra) and the standing one as ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΡΑΤΗ / ΘΕΟΦΑΝΤΟΥ / ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΘΕΝ (Kallistati, the daughter of Theophantos from the deme of Kephale). In such type of images, the seated figure usually represents the deceased and the standing one a relative. In most cases, only the name of the deceased is recorded. The presence of two names on this stele may suggest its reuse for a second burial in a later period. This hypothesis is supported by the different size of the letters used for the two names. Grave stelai with relief decoration are typical manifestations of ancient Greek art. The earliest inscribed examples date from the early 6th c. BC and come from Attica. During the 5th c. BC, grave stelai were used extensively throughout most of Greece. In Athens, however, their use was banned in 508/7 BC by the founder of democracy, Kleisthenes, possibly in an effort to curb the aristocratic tendency for ostentation and luxurious burials. They came back into use after 430 BC in the form of rectangular plaques with pediments (resembling small temples). It was by that time that artists adopted a purely idealistic manner of rendering the figures, as in this example.