This grave relief shows an old man and his dog. It was found in Boeotia made from local stone, but an inscription on it says it was made by Alxenor from the south Aegean island of Naxos. Similar works have been found as far afield as Thessaly in north eastern Greece, modern-day Turkey and Italy, and the Black Sea.
The deceased, bearded and with a crutch, is shown alone, feeding a scrap to his pet dog
Athens National Museum 39
Presented by Oscar Browning to the Fitzwilliam in October 1876. Transferred to the Museum in 1884
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 114 (n.5), pl. 38.1
Johansen: the Attic Grave Reliefs of the Classical Period (1951), fig.59
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), 168, fig.425
Karo: Personality in Greek Archaic Art, 189-
Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, 41
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 18, no.47
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.41
(not on the cast) By Alxenor of Naxos, just look
Found at Rhonaiko near Orchomenos
