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Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription

1900.11.0102

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Artifact Identification Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription   (1900.11.0102)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Funerary Objects
Artist/Maker Emile Gillieron & Fils, Athens.
Geographic Location
Period Archaic
Date 650 - 550 BCE
Culture Ancient Greek

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 68.6 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 30.5 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 6.4 cm
Weight 5,062 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Plaster
Manufacturing Processes Cast

Research Remarks

Description Under Review
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Fraser, Peter M. and Elaine Matthews, eds. 1987. A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, vol. 1, The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica. 1994. Oxford: The Clarendon Press for the British Academy.

Guarducci, M. Epigrafia Greca, vol. I (Rome 1987) 352–53, with figs. 181a and b.

Jeffery, Lilian H. 1961. The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece. Oxford, 317–318, 323 no. 5 (additional bibliography), pl. 61 no. 5. = Jeffery, Lilian H., and A. W. Johnston. 1990. Revised edition with a supplement. Oxford,

Touratsoglou, I. et al. The Greek Script (Athens 2001) fig. 24 (color photograph).

IG XII 3 = Inscriptiones Graecae, vol. XII, part 3, Inscriptiones Symes, Teutlussae, Teli, Nisyri, Astypalaeae, Anaphes, Therae et Therasiae, Pholegandri, Cimoli, Meli (1898–1904), no. 762a

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication N/A
Reproduction yes, Original displayed in the Athens Epigraphical Museum. Cast probably made by the staff of the Athens National Archaeological Museum, perhaps Emile Gillieron & Fils, Athens. The plaster casts of the center and left sides of the gravestone are 1900.11.0103 and 1900.11.0099 respectively.

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