AIUK46 no. 60 Kioniskos of Sokrates

Kioniskos of Sokrates

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 60 Date: ii-i BC

Σωκράτης̣ Σωκράτου Ἀγκυρανός.

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 60 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 7934 (PHI)

GIBM I 97

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Kioniskos

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens, Petraki monastery (BM 1816,0610.183)

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[1] This kioniskos in the British Museum is part of the Elgin collection (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). On this style of monument see no. 57, with notes. Sokrates and his father were part of the large Galatian community in Athens from Ankyra (modern Ankara in Turkey). Alexander the Great had taken the city from the Persians in 333 BC, and it became an important Greek trading centre. The letter forms of the inscription suggest a date in the Late Hellenistic period. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 40.

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