Inscriptions: The Funerary MonumentsThis volume presents the funerary inscriptions found in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1968. In addition, all Agora fragments of the public casualty lists known in 1971 have been included, together with fragments associated with them but found elsewhere, although the latter are not discussed in full. Of the 1,099 inscriptions catalogued here, 238 are published for the first time. With the exception of 6 (previously published), all contain a sure name, ethnic, or demotic. In accordance with the established policy of the Excavations of the Athenian Agora, a photograph is included of every stone for which none has appeared previously. The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by demotics and ethnics; the indexes include names, tribes, geographical names, significant Greek words, and Latin words. The author's unparalleled familiarity with Attic funerary scripts enabled him to offer valuable chronological suggestions for otherwise undatable private monuments and his historical understanding gave new meaning to the public funerary monuments. |
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a. p. post band bottom broken elsewhere casualty saec central chipped Christ Church collected marbles columnar monument Complete drawing Eleusinion father found on April found on December found on February found on January found on June found on March found on November Fragment Hesperia husband Hymettian marble II/III II² inscribed inscription Kirchner lacuna Left side letters Market Square Meritt Middle Stoa modern context modern house modern house east modern house south modern wall monument of Hymettian monument of Pentelic moulding naiskos of Pentelic niche Odeion pedimental stele Peek Pentelic marble photograph pl possible probably Raubitschek relief restoration right side ring preserved rough-picked back preserved seems side preserved southwest space stele of Pentelic Stoa of Attalos stone suggests surface top and ring Unpublished vacat wife XVII XXIII
Popular passages
Page 150 - October 24, 1938, in the wall of a modern house southeast of the Market Square and west of the Panathenaic Way (R 23).
Page 104 - Hymettian marble (I 5160), found on December 16, 1937, in the wall of a modern house south of the Church of the Holy Apostles (O 18).
Page 98 - Hymettian marble, with the right side and roughpicked back preserved, found on December 13, 1935, in the wall of a modern house west of the north end of the Stoa of Attalos (O 8).
References to this book
The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens Matthew R. Christ,Matthew Robert Christ No preview available - 2006 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Inscriptions: The Funerary Monuments Volume 17 of Athenian Agora, American School of Classical Studies Athēnai, ISSN 1558-8610 Volume 17 of Athenian Agora: Results of Exc |
| Author | Donald William Bradeen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | ASCSA, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0876612176, 9780876612170 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / Greece Social Science / Archaeology |
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