AIUK46 no. 45 Lekythos of Hermotion(?)

Lekythos of Hermotion(?)

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 45 Date: late v - early iv BC

(relief) [- - - . . .]Ε[. . . . . . . ¹³ . . . . . .]ον Ἑρμοτίων[ος?] [- - - . . . .]Ι[. . . . . ⁹ . . . . σο]φία[ς] μ̣ετέχεν [- - -]Υ[. . . .]Υ̣[. . . . . . ¹² . . . . . .] πατρός, ἡνίκα τε ἔζη [- - - . . . .]ΕΙ[. . . . . . ¹¹ . . . . . ω]ν ἔτυχεν.

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References:

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 45 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 11338a (PHI)

GIBM I 132

Conze II no. 1135

Peek, GVI, no. 2070

Schmaltz, Marmorlekythen A30

CEG 2, no. 476

Clairmont, CAT 3.220

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2 3

Monument type: Marble lekythos

Inscription type: Funerary, Metrical (elegaic couplets?)

Findspot: Athens (BM 1816,0610.122)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This marble lekythos (cf. no. 44) in the British Museum was aquired by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). The relief depicts a warrior with helmet and shield in a knee-length belted chiton and a chlamys draped over his shoulder facing two figures (parents?) and shaking hands (dexiosis, cf. on no. 26) with one of them, a bearded man; the deceased may have been killed in battle. An epigram in four lines, now badly damaged, is inscribed beneath the figures in letters reminiscent of professional letter cutting in public decrees and arranged in vertical columns (stoichedon), as was more common in official texts than on private monuments. The name Hermotion is likely that of either the deceased or his father. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 45.

Added: 6 Apr 2022
Updated: 18 Mar 2025
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