Inventory Number: | I 5459 | |
Section Number: | Η' 819 | |
Title: | Funeral Lekythos | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Inscribed funeral lekythos. Almost half of the circuference preserved; base and neck broken away; surface battered and worn. At right, on a raised ground-line, a partly-draped bearded man is seated left, holding the hand of a standing male (?) figure facing him. Behind this figure, a standing nude boy. Three lines of the inscription preserved; one over head of seated figure, one at left of standing figure, and one over the head of the boy. Pentelic marble. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Found in a wall of Byzantine building, over the area of the altar of the Twelve Gods. | |
Negatives: | Leica, LXXII-84 | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.62; Lett. H. ca. 0.009; Diam. ca. 0.39 | |
Date: | 26 May 1938 | |
Section: | Η' | |
Grid: | K 6 | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 26-27, fig. 14. | |
Schmaltz (1970), no. A 214. | ||
Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 276, no. 124, pl. 55. | ||
Agora XVII, no. 994, p. 174. | ||
Agora XXXV, no. 182, pl. 57. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Publication Page: Agora 17, s. 186, p. 174 Publication Page: Agora 17, s. 216, p. 204 Images (4) Notebook: Η'-10 Notebook Page: Η'-10-80 (pp. 1908-1909) Card: I 5459 |