AIUK46 no. 5 Grave stele of Chairippe

Grave stele of Chairippe

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 5 Date: early iv BC

(Memorial) of Chairippe.^[1]

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 5 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 13040a (PHI)

GIBM I 130

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens, in the house of Demetrios Zograffos (BM 1843,0531.21)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This funerary monument is one of two in the British Museum which are among 48 objects acquired by the Museum from the collection of H. W. Inwood after his death at sea in 1843. The other is AIUK 4.6, no. 29. Inwood had travelled to Greece in 1819, studying its architecture and collecting antiquities. He wrote an influential study on Greek architecture, and played an important role in the Neoclassical revival, working on a number of churches, including St. Pancras New Church in London, which boasts a Karyatid porch modelled on that from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis. Demetrios Zograffos, at whose house in Athens Inwood found this monument, was a guide and servant of Lord Byron, who had travelled to England with the poet and later returned to Greece to fight in the War of Independence.

The woman's name, Chairippe, in the genitive, is somewhat roughly inscribed in the upper right corner of the stele shaft. She was probably depicted in a painting below. Her status is indeterminable, although further information about her may originally have been conveyed by the painting or by neighbouring monuments within a family funerary enclosure (peribolos).

For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 5.

Added: 6 Apr 2022
Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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