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SEPULCHRAL RELIEFS.
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of the archaic period, and which are more or less of
religious or ritualist significance.
Vases.—The Sepulchral Vases, which are represented
either in relief or in the round, are a common form of
monument at Athens, and are connected with the obser-
vances paid to the dead. These vases which are some-
times lekythi, and sometimes amphorae or hydriae, may be
decorated with patterns, or with subjects in relief, such
as appear on other sepulchral stelae. They probably are
to be traced from the vessels of pottery in which offerings
were brought, to be poured out as libations on the tomb.
Compare below the account of the " Sepulchral Banquet."
There is ancient authority for the view that the vase
indicates an unmarried person. Eustath. on II. xxin.,
141, p. 1293 : koutchs irpo ydfj.ov Se TeXevTwcriv r) Xovrpcxpopos,
cpaatv, iireTL0€to KaA.7ris ets eVSei^tv tow otl aXovTos to. vvficpLKa
/cat ayoFos aVeio-i. Demosthenes (in Leochar. pp. 1086 and
1089, ed. Beiske) speaks also of rj \ovrpo<f)6po<; (sc. iSpia
or KaA7T(,s), being placed on the tomb of an unmarried
person. (Kumanudis, p. 18 ; Greek Inscriptions in Brit.
Mus., No. lxxx.)
On the other hand, the tombs of a father, Philoxenos,
and of his sons Parthenios and Dion, in the Cerameicos at
Athens were all surmounted by stone vases (C. I. A., ii.,
3191-3193 ; Conze, p. 16). Perhaps a distinction must
be made between the lekythi which represent libations at
the tomb, and the hydriae, which have the special meaning
mentioned above. An early instance of the Attic sepul-
chral vase, with painting and relief, is placed by Kohler
on epigraphic grounds between 450 and 430 B.C. (Athen-
ische Mittheilungen, x., pi. 13, p. 362.)
Figures clas2)ing Hands—In Attic reliefs, chiefly of the
fourth and subsequent centuries, the two principal persons
are often represented clasping right hands together, and
such scenes are commonly known as Scenes of Parting. A
297
of the archaic period, and which are more or less of
religious or ritualist significance.
Vases.—The Sepulchral Vases, which are represented
either in relief or in the round, are a common form of
monument at Athens, and are connected with the obser-
vances paid to the dead. These vases which are some-
times lekythi, and sometimes amphorae or hydriae, may be
decorated with patterns, or with subjects in relief, such
as appear on other sepulchral stelae. They probably are
to be traced from the vessels of pottery in which offerings
were brought, to be poured out as libations on the tomb.
Compare below the account of the " Sepulchral Banquet."
There is ancient authority for the view that the vase
indicates an unmarried person. Eustath. on II. xxin.,
141, p. 1293 : koutchs irpo ydfj.ov Se TeXevTwcriv r) Xovrpcxpopos,
cpaatv, iireTL0€to KaA.7ris ets eVSei^tv tow otl aXovTos to. vvficpLKa
/cat ayoFos aVeio-i. Demosthenes (in Leochar. pp. 1086 and
1089, ed. Beiske) speaks also of rj \ovrpo<f)6po<; (sc. iSpia
or KaA7T(,s), being placed on the tomb of an unmarried
person. (Kumanudis, p. 18 ; Greek Inscriptions in Brit.
Mus., No. lxxx.)
On the other hand, the tombs of a father, Philoxenos,
and of his sons Parthenios and Dion, in the Cerameicos at
Athens were all surmounted by stone vases (C. I. A., ii.,
3191-3193 ; Conze, p. 16). Perhaps a distinction must
be made between the lekythi which represent libations at
the tomb, and the hydriae, which have the special meaning
mentioned above. An early instance of the Attic sepul-
chral vase, with painting and relief, is placed by Kohler
on epigraphic grounds between 450 and 430 B.C. (Athen-
ische Mittheilungen, x., pi. 13, p. 362.)
Figures clas2)ing Hands—In Attic reliefs, chiefly of the
fourth and subsequent centuries, the two principal persons
are often represented clasping right hands together, and
such scenes are commonly known as Scenes of Parting. A