Inventory Number: | I 3845 | |
Section Number: | ΗΗ 129 | |
Title: | Grave Relief Fragment | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Inscribed fragment of grave relief of Athenokles. Broken at the bottom. The full width is preserved, but the surface is chipped at the right. Preserved is the head of a bearded man, left, wearing a petasos. In the upper right corner of the field is the end of his staff. The field is framed at either side by a carefully profiled anta, above by an "epistyle" with a broad slightly sunken fascia between two narrow ones, and a crowning moulding consisting of an ovolo and a plain fascia. Back rough picked; sides toothed; top smooth. The flesh surfaces polished; the hair carefully rendered; background and hat left slightly rough. The inscription, in two lines, is cut on the central fascia of the epistyle. On the ovolo was a painted egg and dart, 0.032m. on centers. About fourty-one lines of the inscription preserved. Pentelic marble. ADDENDA Fragment with neck and shoulders (S 56) added in 1953. | |
Notes: | Previously Upper Colonnade-North End. | |
Context: | Found in the floor of the church of Christ, north of the Eleusinion. Used upside down as paving slab. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 6-190, 6-227, 6-228, LXI-96, color slide | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.415, (of two fragments as joined) 0.535; Lett. H. 0.012; W. 0.54; Th. 0.08 | |
Chronology: | Before 350 B.C. | |
Date: | 23 March 1936 | |
Section: | ΗΗ | |
Grid: | T 17 | |
Bibliography: | Clairmont (1993), no. 1.193. | |
Guide (1976), p. 300. | ||
AgoraPicBk 10 (1966), fig. 34. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 192. | ||
Peek (1955), no. 344. | ||
ILN (18 July 1936). | ||
Agora XVII, no. 697, p. 133. | ||
Agora XXXV, no. 78, pl. 23. | ||
IG II2, no. 10593. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XVII Publication: AgoraPicBk 10 (1966) Publication: Agora XXXV Publication Pages (4) Images (7) Card: I 3845 Card: I 3845 |