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Description: Funerary stele inscribed for Eupheros

TitleFunerary stele inscribed for Eupheros

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureGreek

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 430 BC

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationKerameikos Museum, Athens

Accession numberI 417/P 1169

SubjectsRelief (Sculpture), Ancient--GreeceStele (Archaeology)Sepulchral monuments--GreeceEpigrams, GreekAthletes in art

StatusFrom the Kerameikos, Athens

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Part I: The Statue and the Corpse

Seth Estrin

Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens

Sometime around 430 BCE, in a small necropolis reserved for children just outside the walls of Athens, the parents of a boy named Eupheros buried their son.Details on the burials of Eupheros and Lissos presented here are taken from the excavation reports associated with their graves: see...

Author

Seth Estrin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-21

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100325&redirecttoanchor=205573

Chapter subject tags:Sepulchral monuments--GreeceStele (Archaeology)--GreeceFuneral rites and ceremonies--GreeceSculpture, GreekRelief (Sculpture), GreekAthens (Greece)--History

3. Changing in the Gymnasium

Robin Osborne

The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece

~Greek history begins, traditionally, with athletics. The date calculated in antiquity for the first Olympic games, 776 BC, has been held to divide prehistory from history.For how this date...

Author

Robin Osborne

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.53-86

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00355.3

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23630&redirecttoanchor=205573

Chapter subject tags:Athens (Greece)--HistoryVase-painting, Greek--Greece--AthensGymnasiums--GreeceRed-figured drinking cupsPottery, GreekAthletics--Greece

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