IGII2 11841 Grave marker of Kephisodoros

Grave marker of Kephisodoros

IG II² 11841 Date: mid-iv BC

Kephisodoros.^[1]

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IG II² 11841 (Translated text) (PHI)

Conze IV no. 1763a

Translation by: Kylie Ouellette

Images: Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Slab

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Kerameikos, Street of the Tombs (Kerameikos Museum I 255, at peribolos)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This marker is one of three large rectangular grave slabs within the funerary enclosure (peribolos) of Kephisodoros on the south side of the Street of the Tombs in the Kerameikos (A. Brueckner, Der Friedhof am Eridanos, 1909, 85, Bezirk V). The peribolos seems to have been founded in the first half of the 4^th century BC, and is fronted with a façade of large conglomerate blocks once plastered and later repaired following damage across the area after the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC). The three funerary slabs are laid horizontally over adjacent graves, with the inscriptions carved across their upper surfaces, an unusual form of monument in Athenian cemeteries, and are dated by letter forms to the mid-4^th century BC. One of the other slabs also gives a single name, Nikostrate (IG II² 12296), while the third commemorates Lysikrates of Gargettos (IG II² 5937a). For the peribolos, see J. Stroszeck, Der Kerameikos in Athens. Geschichte, Bauten und Denkmäler im archäologischen Park, 2014, 201, no. 42 and for images, see Commons. For a general discussion of Attic funerary monuments, AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam), section 3.

Added: 2 Jun 2025
Updated: 2 Jun 2025
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