AIUK2 no. 11 Funerary monument for Aglokr- of Torone

Funerary monument for Aglokr- of Torone

AIUK 2 (BSA) no. 11 Date: c. 400-350 BC

Ἀγλωκρ- Τορωνα-

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AIUK 2 (BSA) no. 11 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 10453 (PHI)

SEG 50.260

Lambert, BSA Inscriptions E9

Ginestí Rosell no. 165

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

AIO Images: 1 2 3

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Unknown (BSA E9)

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[1] Juridically there was a clear distinction in classical Athens between the citizen and resident foreign, or metic, population, expressed most clearly in the citizenship law of Pericles, which required citizens to have both citizen mothers and fathers. In the city’s major cemetery, the Kerameikos, however, citizens and foreigners were commemorated side by side (cf. C. L. Gray, in M. Carrol, J. Rempel eds., Living through the Dead. Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World, 2011, 49-50) and citizens and foreigners are also well represented among both figurative monuments (for a famous example see IG II² 6217; in the BSA see IG II² 12221, IG II² 6982) and monuments on which the deceased are named without figurative decoration, such as this, one of six funerary monuments of citizens of Torone at Athens. All six date from the late 5th or early 4th centuries BC (IG I³ 1377-1379, II² 10453-10455, Ginestí Rosell 157 [ph.], 158 [ph.], 160, 165, 166 [ph.], 167), during which period Torone was significantly impacted by Athenian imperialism (cf. P. Flensted-Jensen, in M. H. Hansen and T. H. Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, 2004, 847-848, no. 620). The other gravestones, where the findspots are known, are mostly from the Kerameikos (from which one might guess that our inscription also derives), and in one case the Piraeus, IG II² 10454 = Scholl, Bildfeldstelen 280 no. 214 = Ginestí Rosell no. 166. Of the 9 Toroneans attested on these monuments (listed also FRA pp. 307-308), one other is certainly a woman, Protho on IG II² 10454. The name and gender of the deceased on our monument cannot be reconstructed with certainty. If George Finlay's drawing of the monument, which was once built into the wall of the garden of his house at Athens (Odos Adrianou 199), is accurate, the inscription once had additional letters which indicate that the deceased was a woman. For a figurative funerary monument in the BSA commemorating a foreign resident of a later period see IG II² 9691. For further discussion of private Attic funerary monuments, see AIUK 3 (Cambridge), section 3. For more detail on this monument see AIUK 2 (BSA) no. 11.

Added: 30 Apr 2018
Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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