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Graeco-Roman art.
In the picture area on the left are a horse and a bearded
man who is wearing a chlamys and a rider’s cloak fastened
at the right shoulder; his left hand is covered by the cloak
but seems to be holding the reins.
With his right hand he is united by a handclasp with
another full-bearded man in a himation which leaves his
upper body partly naked. Above the man on the left, the
deceased, we read: ΜΕΝΥΑΑΟΣ ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ (Menyllus of
the Demos Alai); above the man on the right: ΑΣΤΥΦΙΑΟΣ
ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ (Astyphilus of the Demos Alai). The latter is the
father. The son, Menyllus, the son of Asthypilus of Alai
parish (cf. No. 219 a) is known from an Attic votive inscript-
ion of about the middle of the 4th cent. B. C. (Kirchner:
Prosopographica Attica II p. 78 No. 10062). It is more signifi-
cant that two other funerary lekythoi of the same size, with
the same figures and the same names, were found at Cera-
micus—Athens cemetery near the potters’ field—and must
have adorned the same tomb as ours; they are in the Athens
National Museum ( Δΐλτίον XI, 1927—28, Παράρτημα p. 45
seq. Nos. 168 and 170, fig. 3). It is not uncommon for the
same family members to be found on several tomb reliefs,
but the reliefs are never so faithfully traced as in this case
(Athen. Mitt. 51, 1926, pp. 57-64. L. Curtius, Jahrbuch der
preuss. Kunstsammlungen 61, 1940 p. 66 with note 1).
2. Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. V. Fr. Poulsen, Acta Arch. V 1934 p. 60 seqq.
222. (I. N. 467). Tomb lekythos. M.
H. 0.98, the antique part 0.52. The neck and foot renewed in marble.
The vase is from Athens and came with Lord Elgin to England, where
it was incorporated in the collection of the architect Atkinson in Lon-
don like No. 194.
A bearded, seated man in a himation with his left hand
once resting on an originally painted-in staff and his right
hand clasping that of a standing woman wearing chiton and
himation. Above the man we read
ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ (Hippocrates, son of Lycius).
AYKIO
Above the woman:
EYKOAINH ΕΥΠ0ΑΕΜ0 (Eucoline, daughter of Eupolemus).
ΓΑΑΥΚΙΣ
The last name, Glaucis, doubtless is that of a woman of
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In the picture area on the left are a horse and a bearded
man who is wearing a chlamys and a rider’s cloak fastened
at the right shoulder; his left hand is covered by the cloak
but seems to be holding the reins.
With his right hand he is united by a handclasp with
another full-bearded man in a himation which leaves his
upper body partly naked. Above the man on the left, the
deceased, we read: ΜΕΝΥΑΑΟΣ ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ (Menyllus of
the Demos Alai); above the man on the right: ΑΣΤΥΦΙΑΟΣ
ΑΑΑΙΕΥΣ (Astyphilus of the Demos Alai). The latter is the
father. The son, Menyllus, the son of Asthypilus of Alai
parish (cf. No. 219 a) is known from an Attic votive inscript-
ion of about the middle of the 4th cent. B. C. (Kirchner:
Prosopographica Attica II p. 78 No. 10062). It is more signifi-
cant that two other funerary lekythoi of the same size, with
the same figures and the same names, were found at Cera-
micus—Athens cemetery near the potters’ field—and must
have adorned the same tomb as ours; they are in the Athens
National Museum ( Δΐλτίον XI, 1927—28, Παράρτημα p. 45
seq. Nos. 168 and 170, fig. 3). It is not uncommon for the
same family members to be found on several tomb reliefs,
but the reliefs are never so faithfully traced as in this case
(Athen. Mitt. 51, 1926, pp. 57-64. L. Curtius, Jahrbuch der
preuss. Kunstsammlungen 61, 1940 p. 66 with note 1).
2. Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. V. Fr. Poulsen, Acta Arch. V 1934 p. 60 seqq.
222. (I. N. 467). Tomb lekythos. M.
H. 0.98, the antique part 0.52. The neck and foot renewed in marble.
The vase is from Athens and came with Lord Elgin to England, where
it was incorporated in the collection of the architect Atkinson in Lon-
don like No. 194.
A bearded, seated man in a himation with his left hand
once resting on an originally painted-in staff and his right
hand clasping that of a standing woman wearing chiton and
himation. Above the man we read
ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ (Hippocrates, son of Lycius).
AYKIO
Above the woman:
EYKOAINH ΕΥΠ0ΑΕΜ0 (Eucoline, daughter of Eupolemus).
ΓΑΑΥΚΙΣ
The last name, Glaucis, doubtless is that of a woman of
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