AIUK46 no. 34 Funerary naiskos of Metagenes

Funerary naiskos of Metagenes

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 34 Date: 350-300 BC

Μεταγένης Ἐπιγένους vac. Φιλουμενὴ Τηλοκλέους Κυδαθηναιεύς. vac. Κυδαθηναιέως. (relief)

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 34 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 6587 (PHI)

GIBM IV 939a

Kokula, Marmorlutrophoren H37

Clairmont, CAT 3.414a

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2 3

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens (BM 1915,0416.1)

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[1] This stele was bought by the British Museum in 1915 without provenance, but a text of the inscription was sent to the Berlin Academy in 1912 by Wiegand from Istanbul, and if he saw it there rather than in Athens then it might have been sold at Istanbul or at least shipped from there. It is an upper section of a naiskos stele crowned by a pediment with a loutrophoros-hydria. Only two of the three figures in the relief are named. The bearded Metagenes, his hands once supported by a stick, is from the same deme as the other named figure, Philoumene, but is not her father; they may be husband and wife if she is the seated older woman on the left. However, the loutrophoros is a symbol that the deceased was unmarried (cf. AIUK 3, no. 5), and this should relate to the younger woman on the right, who is probably to be identified as Philoumene, likely a close relative of Metagenes. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 34.

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