AIUK3 no. 8 Funerary columella of Euklidas of Hermione

Funerary columella of Euklidas of Hermione

AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) no. 8 Date: ca. 1st cent. AD?

Euklidas son of Euklidas of Hermione Relief^[1]

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References:

AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) no. 8 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 8499 (PHI)

Conze IV no. 1820 (ph.)

Budde and Nicholls no. 132 (ph.)

von Moock no. 417

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

AIO Images: 4 1 3 2

Monument type: Kioniskos

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens, “apud Michaelem Ἀστράκαρι” (Fourmont ap. Boeckh), “in platea” (Chandler), “in one of the streets, lying horizontally, and serving as horse block” (Clarke) (Fitzwilliam Museum GR.19.1865)

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[1] A video about this inscription is available on the AIO Youtube channel.

After the funerary legislation of Demetrios of Phaleron had prohibited more elaborate memorials, funerary commemoration in Hellenistic Athens was characterised by the columella, inscribed simply with the name of the deceased (cf. IG II² 8408). When, from the late first century BC, there was a revival of the figurative style, the columellae continued to be made, but could now be decorated with relief sculpture. Here the relief depicts a long-haired man wrapped tightly in a himation, framed by an archway, his head slightly turned to the right. Under him a dog in outline bounds up towards his master, a motif which, at this period, marks out the deceased as an ephebe. Hermione was a coastal city of the southern Argolid. Just two men from the city are attested as residents of Attica between the sixth and third centuries BC, both cultural figures known from the literary record, and this is one of four Attic funerary monuments for citizens of Hermione dating from the first century BC to the third century AD, and the only one with figurative relief. For more detailed discussion of this monument, see AIUK 3 (Cambridge), no. 8; for a general discussion of Attic funerary monuments, AIUK 3 (Cambridge), section 3; see also AIUK 2 (BSA) no.10 with notes.

Added: 3 Sep 2018
Updated: 1 Apr 2022
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