AIUK11 no. 11 Monument commemorating war-dead?

Monument commemorating war-dead?

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 11 Date: late v or early iv BC?

-ΝΑ-^[1] vacat

Greek text

References:

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 11 (Translated text) (AIO) (AIUK)

IG I³ 1193bis (IG Online) (PHI)

SEG 33.44 (PHI)

IK Smyrna 807

Clairmont, Patrios Nomos, no. 59

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

AIO Images: 1

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary (Public?)

Findspot: Kerameikos (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ANMichaelis 85)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This fragment was acquired by Thomas Burgon in Athens in 1814, along with some uninscribed funerary monuments, all probably deriving from excavations that he undertook in the Kerameikos. It was donated to the Ashmolean by Burgon’s son in 1858.

Only two letters survive, with the lower part of a relief depicting a soldier attacking a naked figure on the ground. A shield between them was probably held up by a third figure to protect the man on the ground. This scene and the shape of the fragment suggest that it is from the upper part of a late fifth- or early fourth-century list of Athenian war-dead. Possible restorations of the text include Ἀθε]να[ίον hοίδε ἀπεθανον (“Of the Athenians, these died”) or -ν ἀ[νέθεκε (“… dedicated”).

For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 11 (Ashmolean), no. 11. For lists of the commemoration of the war-dead in fifth and fourth-century Athens, see IG I³ 1147 and N. T. Arrington, Ashes, Images, and Memories (2015).

Added: 14 Jan 2021
Updated: 29 Mar 2024
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