EditorialLeft, a reconstruction of the marble funerary stele of Paramythion and Pheidiades, 2008, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann with synthetic marble, egg tempura and Right, a marble stele (grave marker) of Eukleia from Greece, ca. 380 B.C.–370 B.C. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Aug. 11, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)