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Graeco-Roman art.
Λνϋιζλήους for Λυβιζλοΰς, ’.Α-ΐϊνόνεως for }Αί)μ<>νεως
in the bottom line ’Λριστολείδον for "Λριβτοζλείδον.
This gravestone was put up over two women, Hedeia the
daughter of Lysicles, and Phanylla, the wife or daughter of
Aristocleides, both of the Demos Athmonia or Athmonon in
Attica, the actual village of Marusi on the Cephisia road
northeast of Athens. In an Attic inscription of 334/333 B. C.
mention is made of a Lysicles, son of Lysippus, of the Demos
Athmonia, i.e. a man of the same name as Hedeia’s father,
but not at all necessarily the same man (cf. Dittenberger:
Sylloge 530,16).
Hedeia—an uncommon feminine name, by the way—is
uppermost and therefore doubtless that of the principal per-
son, the seated woman, whereas Phanylla is the standing
girl. On the other hand, the placing of the names in relation
to the heads of the persons may mean the opposite, Hedeia,
described merely as daughter, being the younger—the one
standing.
The sitting woman is in a sleeved chiton and a himation
which is pulled up over her head, and her hair is dressed
in a bow, a style that first appears in the 4th cent. B. C.
Formally the figure is related to “The Goddess on the Goose”
in Boston (Br. Br. 577) and other Attic works of the first
half of the 4th cent. B. C. The standing woman’s lively gest-
iculation with her left hand recalls the female figure on the
tomb relief No. 207. The execution is poor.
Billedtavler pl. XVI. N. C. G. 83 A. Furtwangler: Meisterwerke p. 665 note
1. S. Reinach: Rep. Rel. II 185,2. Hekler, Ausonia V 1911 p. 4 fig. 1.
219 a. (I. N. 2558). Attic tomb relief with fronton. M.
H. 1.59. Well preserved except tor some injuries, especially to the
fronton, the lower face and nose of the sitting woman, parts of the
relief below and the arms of the principal persons. Acquired in 1910
from Athens.
On a diphrus (chair without a back) with a loose cushion
sits a woman in chiton and himation, her feet on a footstool,
giving her hand to a standing, bearded man; in the back-
ground the short-haired tern with the jewel-casket. Her
presence indicates that it is her mistress who is being
honoured, because she is the first of the spouses to die. This
is confirmed by the inscription on the cornice, in which the
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Λνϋιζλήους for Λυβιζλοΰς, ’.Α-ΐϊνόνεως for }Αί)μ<>νεως
in the bottom line ’Λριστολείδον for "Λριβτοζλείδον.
This gravestone was put up over two women, Hedeia the
daughter of Lysicles, and Phanylla, the wife or daughter of
Aristocleides, both of the Demos Athmonia or Athmonon in
Attica, the actual village of Marusi on the Cephisia road
northeast of Athens. In an Attic inscription of 334/333 B. C.
mention is made of a Lysicles, son of Lysippus, of the Demos
Athmonia, i.e. a man of the same name as Hedeia’s father,
but not at all necessarily the same man (cf. Dittenberger:
Sylloge 530,16).
Hedeia—an uncommon feminine name, by the way—is
uppermost and therefore doubtless that of the principal per-
son, the seated woman, whereas Phanylla is the standing
girl. On the other hand, the placing of the names in relation
to the heads of the persons may mean the opposite, Hedeia,
described merely as daughter, being the younger—the one
standing.
The sitting woman is in a sleeved chiton and a himation
which is pulled up over her head, and her hair is dressed
in a bow, a style that first appears in the 4th cent. B. C.
Formally the figure is related to “The Goddess on the Goose”
in Boston (Br. Br. 577) and other Attic works of the first
half of the 4th cent. B. C. The standing woman’s lively gest-
iculation with her left hand recalls the female figure on the
tomb relief No. 207. The execution is poor.
Billedtavler pl. XVI. N. C. G. 83 A. Furtwangler: Meisterwerke p. 665 note
1. S. Reinach: Rep. Rel. II 185,2. Hekler, Ausonia V 1911 p. 4 fig. 1.
219 a. (I. N. 2558). Attic tomb relief with fronton. M.
H. 1.59. Well preserved except tor some injuries, especially to the
fronton, the lower face and nose of the sitting woman, parts of the
relief below and the arms of the principal persons. Acquired in 1910
from Athens.
On a diphrus (chair without a back) with a loose cushion
sits a woman in chiton and himation, her feet on a footstool,
giving her hand to a standing, bearded man; in the back-
ground the short-haired tern with the jewel-casket. Her
presence indicates that it is her mistress who is being
honoured, because she is the first of the spouses to die. This
is confirmed by the inscription on the cornice, in which the
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