AIUK46 no. 67 Kioniskos of Anaxikrates

Kioniskos of Anaxikrates

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 67 Date: i BC - i AD

Anaxikrates (son) of Dexiochos of Athens.^[1]

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 67 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 7859 (PHI)

GIBM I 96

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Kioniskos

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens? (BM 1816,0610.123)

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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 relief of a loutrophoros may indicate that Anaxikrates died unmarried (cf. no. 46). The use of the ethnic "Athenian" instead of a demotic on a gravestone within Attica is highly unusual. Within the polis, Athenian sculptors tended to be identified by their ethnic, perhaps as part of a more internationally focused marketing of their work, and Athenian choregic inscriptions often designate the victorious pipe-player (auletes) or poet/director (didaskalos) as Athenaios, perhaps to distinguish them among long lists of foreign participants (e.g., on the Lysikrates monument, IG II³ 4, 460). On gravestones, “Athenians” may have come from other cities called Athens, such as Athenai Diades in Euboia, although we might expect more care to have been taken to distinguish their citizenship in a homonymous city. It seems more probable that they were a status category of citizens who did not have deme membership at this period. We find lists of “Athenians”, for example, in ephebic lists such as IG II² 1043, where around eleven such men are found among other ephebes who are, as we would expect, accompanied by their demotics or foreign ethnics; they are, however, all formed up under the same tribe, Antiochis (XI), suggesting that they shared a status given to them by Athens that included tribal but not deme affiliation. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 67.

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