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thumb|Paestan lekythos depicting Niobe turning to stone, c. 330 B.C, [[Altes Museum, Berlin]]

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Niobe
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Νιόβη
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thumb|Paestan lekythos depicting Niobe turning to stone, c. 330 B.C, [[Altes Museum, Berlin]]

Niobe (; : Nióbē) was in Greek mythology a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa. She was the wife of Amphion and the sister of Pelops and Broteas.

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