AIUK46 no. 63 Kioniskos of Aristeides

Kioniskos of Aristeides

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 63 Date: early i BC

Aristeides (son) of Lysimachos of Hestiaia.^[1]

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 63 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 6137/8 (PHI)

GIBM I 85

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Kioniskos

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens (BM 1816,0610.175)

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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. The alternating father and son names Aristeides and Lysimachos are attested several times in the deme Hestiaia: an Aristeides son of Lysimachos appears in a catalogue ca. 106/5-96/5 BC (IG II² 2452.51), while a Lysimachos son of Aristeides and father of an Aristeides is recorded on Delos (ID 2616 I, 3-7), and restored in a list of contributors to the Pythaïs in 98/7 BC (SEG 32.218, l. 233). It is tempting to think our funerary monument is for one of these men named Aristeides, and so all the attested men of this name from Hestiaia are related. This seems particularly likely for such a small deme (not securely located) with a bouleutic quota of only one. It may be that at this period such father and son naming was part of an invented tradition since the fifth-century BC Aristeides the Just was also a son of Lysimachos. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 63.

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