Inventory Number: | I 4518 | |
Section Number: | Ν 705 | |
Title: | Funerary Amphora | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Inscribed and sculptured funerary amphora. Well designed pear-shaped body with two thin handles attached to neck and ending in volutes on shoulders. Low relief: elderly man, bearded, standing facing left, draped; above him, his name "ΔΗΜΟΧΑΡΗΣ". He is facing a woman, left, at whose left side is a child wearing a short chiton. The figures much battered. Remains of painted decoration of tongue pattern around shoulder, at base of neck. Below this, on reverse, a band composed of zigzags. Pentelic marble. | |
Context: | Found in late Roman context, southwest of the Odeion. | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.461; Lett. H. 0.007; Diam. 0.262 | |
Chronology: | 4th. century B.C. | |
Date: | 18 February 1937 | |
Section: | Ν | |
Grid: | Ν:11/ΟΓ | |
Elevation: | 56.90m. | |
Masl: | 56.9m. | |
Bibliography: | Clairmont (1993), no. 2.852a. | |
Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 216, no. 141, pl. 61. | ||
Agora XVII, no. 770, p. 144. | ||
Agora XXXV, no. 202, pl. 65. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XVII Publication: Agora XXXV Publication: Hesperia 23 (1954) Publication Page: Agora 17, s. 156, p. 144 Publication Page: Agora 17, s. 216, p. 204 Image: 2011.05.0047 Notebook: Ν-8 Notebook Page: Ν-8-59 (pp. 1508-1509) Card: I 4518 |