
ESSEX, UK — Leading Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers’ February 24 auction featuring the collection of veteran antiques dealer Peter Petrou was a Greek marble funerary stele from the Hellenistic period, Second-First Century BCE, that attained $33,000, including the buyer’s premium. The stele was in the form of a naiskos, enclosing a rectangular recessed panel carved in high relief. A complete report will appear in an upcoming edition.