IGII2 8635 Funerary cippus of Dorkas

Funerary cippus of Dorkas

IG II² 8635 Date: Late iv BC

Dorkas of Herakleia.^[1]

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IG II² 8635 (Translated text) (PHI)

Translation by: Patricia McDonald

Monument type: Cippus

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Kerameikos, precinct of the Messenians (Kerameikos Museum I 264, at peribolos)

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[1] This small, low stele (or cippus) is one of three simple gravestones (IG II² 10678; 12755) within the funerary precinct of the Messenians at the Kerameikos that are probably for slaves from the household of the family who owned the plot (see IG II² 9347a). This is the only one of the three to have more than a name: Dorkas was from Herakleia, usually taken as Herakleia Pontica in Bithynia, which supplied one of the largest communities of resident foreigners at Athens in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, although there were many cities of this name (cf. J. D. Mikalson in G. Schmeling and J. D. Mikalson, Festschrift Essays MacKendrick, 1998, 252-63). The majority of women called Dorkas at Athens were foreigners (Byrne, Athenian Onomasticon). 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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