Abstract
Rules for life, rules for death. The article seeks an explanation for a novel iconographic scheme and its appearance in funerary iconography, on stelai and lekythoi dedicated to a woman who has died in childbirth. It appears during the second quarter of the 4 th century BC. The context is analysed from the point of view of a culture in which mousikè (music and dance) played a prominent role, especially in the innovative themes and technical style of some poets of the late 5 th -4 th century. A typology through the contamination of funerary iconography by a nobler artistic genre is presented based on the possible existence of one or more model(s) in mythological painting, especially the delivery of Semele, where this specific iconography and these schemata might have appeared for the first time.
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