AIUK6 no. 1 Funerary stele for Demochares and Hegelochos

Funerary stele for Demochares and Hegelochos

AIUK 6 (Leeds City Museum) no. 1 Date: ca. 400-350 BC

Δημοχάρης. Ἡγ- vac. 0.0276 -ήλοχος.

Translated text

References:

AIUK 6 (Leeds City Museum) no. 1 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 11132 (PHI)

Conze II no. 674

Clairmont, CAT 2.283

Translation by: Peter Liddel, Polly Low

AIO Images: 1 2 3

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Attica (?) (Leeds City Museum LEEDM.D.1967.1237)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This funerary monument ("stele") commemorating two men named Demochares and Hegelochos depicts in relief a vase known as a "loutrophoros". In life this type of vessel was used in wedding ritual and on a funerary monument it signified that the deceased had died unmarried. The names are inscribed on the upper part of the vessel and will have functioned as labels for painted figures representing the two men. The painting no longer survives, but there is a space in the middle of the name "Hegelochos" which probably accommodated the top of his head. The two men were probably related and may well have been depicted shaking hands ("dexiosis"), a common gesture of intimacy on Athenian funerary monuments. The stele can be dated by the style of its sculpture and lettering to ca. 400-350 BC. For a fuller discussion of this monument see AIUK 6 (Leeds City Museum), no. 1. For more information about private Attic funerary monuments, see AIUK 3 (Cambridge), section 3, with video.

Added: 1 Jul 2019
Updated: 14 Mar 2020
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