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Graeco-Roman art.
220.
woman’s name occupies the principal place:
ΤΙΜΑΡΙΣΤΗ ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΡΟΥ (Timariste, daughter of Pos-
eidorus). The man’s name is on the right and in smaller
tetters: ΣΩΚΡΆΤΗΣ ΑΒΡΩΝΟΣ ΑΆΑΙΕΥΣ
(Socrates, son of Habron, of the Demos Alai).
Up in the fronton a relative who died later and was buried
in the same grave had his name chiselled; his own name is
smashed off, but the names of his father and the Demos are
preserved: NAY2I2TPAT0Y ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ
( son of Nausistratus, of the Demos Alai).
The names: Poseidorus (Poseidon’s gift) and Nausistratos
(Shipwarrior) suggest an old seafaring family. The Demos
(parish) Alai or Halai was indeed at the coast, on the
Saronic Gulf, near Cape Zoster, the southern spur of the
Hymettus chain extending into the sea. Socrates, the son
of Habron of the Demos Alai, is mentioned in an inscription
of about 350 B. C. as Prytan. The composition of the relief
with the figures, chair and footstool “liber Eck” is also
typical of the middle of the 4th cent. B. C. (cf. the earlier
style phase in No. 207). Thus the man’s head also resembles
a bearded head from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus which
actually belongs to the middle of the 4th cent. (Collignon:
Sculpture grecque II p. 334 fig. 169). A tomb relief resemb-
ling ours most, but smaller and inferior, is in the museum
at Peiraieus (Έφημ. άρχ. 1910 p. 76 No. 5).
As to the name Socrates, see I. G. II 870 and Kirchner:
Prosographia Attica II p. 283 No. 13098.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. III. Fr. Poulsen, Arch Anz. 1913 p. 55. Fra Ny
Carlsberg Glyploteks Samlinger II 1922 p. 103 fig. 15. G. Lippold: Antike
Skulpturen der Glyptothek Ny Carlsberg p. 15 seq. and fig. 12.
(I. N. 468). Female head from a Greek tomb relief. M.
H. 0.22. Nose, mouth and chin and a small area of the right cheek
new in plaster. Acquired in 1890 in Rome.
The head came from a relief, and the very irregular hole
in the hair fillet seems to be from a casting hole; it must
have contained a peg for further security. The lobe of the
ear is pierced for an ornament. The marble is Parian, and
the head is undoubtedly an original Greek work of the close
of the 5th cent.
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220.
woman’s name occupies the principal place:
ΤΙΜΑΡΙΣΤΗ ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΡΟΥ (Timariste, daughter of Pos-
eidorus). The man’s name is on the right and in smaller
tetters: ΣΩΚΡΆΤΗΣ ΑΒΡΩΝΟΣ ΑΆΑΙΕΥΣ
(Socrates, son of Habron, of the Demos Alai).
Up in the fronton a relative who died later and was buried
in the same grave had his name chiselled; his own name is
smashed off, but the names of his father and the Demos are
preserved: NAY2I2TPAT0Y ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ
( son of Nausistratus, of the Demos Alai).
The names: Poseidorus (Poseidon’s gift) and Nausistratos
(Shipwarrior) suggest an old seafaring family. The Demos
(parish) Alai or Halai was indeed at the coast, on the
Saronic Gulf, near Cape Zoster, the southern spur of the
Hymettus chain extending into the sea. Socrates, the son
of Habron of the Demos Alai, is mentioned in an inscription
of about 350 B. C. as Prytan. The composition of the relief
with the figures, chair and footstool “liber Eck” is also
typical of the middle of the 4th cent. B. C. (cf. the earlier
style phase in No. 207). Thus the man’s head also resembles
a bearded head from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus which
actually belongs to the middle of the 4th cent. (Collignon:
Sculpture grecque II p. 334 fig. 169). A tomb relief resemb-
ling ours most, but smaller and inferior, is in the museum
at Peiraieus (Έφημ. άρχ. 1910 p. 76 No. 5).
As to the name Socrates, see I. G. II 870 and Kirchner:
Prosographia Attica II p. 283 No. 13098.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. III. Fr. Poulsen, Arch Anz. 1913 p. 55. Fra Ny
Carlsberg Glyploteks Samlinger II 1922 p. 103 fig. 15. G. Lippold: Antike
Skulpturen der Glyptothek Ny Carlsberg p. 15 seq. and fig. 12.
(I. N. 468). Female head from a Greek tomb relief. M.
H. 0.22. Nose, mouth and chin and a small area of the right cheek
new in plaster. Acquired in 1890 in Rome.
The head came from a relief, and the very irregular hole
in the hair fillet seems to be from a casting hole; it must
have contained a peg for further security. The lobe of the
ear is pierced for an ornament. The marble is Parian, and
the head is undoubtedly an original Greek work of the close
of the 5th cent.
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