AIUK46 no. 57 Kioniskos of Simon

Kioniskos of Simon

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 57 Date: iii-ii BC

Simon (son) of Aristodemos of Halai.^[1]

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 57 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 5516 (PHI)

GIBM I 78

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Kioniskos

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens (BM 1816,0610.286)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This the first in a series of 14 inscribed Attic kioniskoi in the British Museum: simple monuments, without figurative sculpture, in the form of small marble columns (columellae) inscribed with the name of the deceased. This became the most common type of funerary monument for three centuries following the sumptuary reforms of Demetrios of Phaleron (317-307 BC), which outlawed the figurative monuments that had characterised the private funerary commemoration of the previous century. Cf. AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam), no. 7- 8. For other examples see AIUK 4.6, no. 58 - 70.

This kioniskos is from the Elgin collection (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). The name Simon was common at Athens and was usually borne by citizens. The deme Halai is either Halai Aixonides or Halai Araphenides, both employing the same demotic (a similar problem of deme identification occurs with Oinoe, see AIUK 2, no. 10, and Oion, see AIUK 5, no. 2). For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 57.

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