APC Image: AK 1207Grave Stele of Julianos. Among the inscribed marbles of early Christian times found in the excavations on the North Slope, this photograph shows the best preserved. It is a grace stele, found built into a wall of one of the modern houses. The inscription is cut on a piece of ancient white marble, with a beveled edge on the right side and roughly tooled back. The top of the block is gabled and decorated with double spirals. Below the inscription is the figure of a bird pecking at a large leaf, and another leaf is carved at the end of the last line. (Hard copy of the record includes transcription of the inscription).
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Object Description:   Grave Stele of Julianos. Among the inscribed marbles of early Christian times found in the excavations on the North Slope, this photograph shows the best preserved. It is a grace stele, found built into a wall of one of the modern houses. The inscription is cut on a piece of ancient white marble, with a beveled edge on the right side and roughly tooled back. The top of the block is gabled and decorated with double spirals. Below the inscription is the figure of a bird pecking at a large leaf, and another leaf is carved at the end of the last line. (Hard copy of the record includes transcription of the inscription).
Negative Number:   AK 1207
Category:   Tombs and sepulchral monuments
Subcategory:   Grave stele
Site:   Acropolis, North Slope
City:   Athens
Region:   Attica
Country:   Greece
Date:   1937
Format:   Interpositive
Dimensions:   17.5 X 12.5
Bibliography:   Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 262-263. fig. 88.
Repository:   ASCSA ARCHIVES
Collection Title:   Archaeological Photographic Collection
Series:   AK
Image Width:   1535
Image Height:   2111