This inscribed tombstone from Attica (the area around Athens) features two rosettes below the lettering puncturing an otherwise bare piece of stone, its blankness made more poignant when compared to the decorative foliage above. In contrast to other grave stelai of similar date this memorial asks not for engagement so much as silence
Number:
413
Material:
Pentelic marble
Location of Original:
Athens, National Museum (?)
Size:
1.31m
References:
Conze: Die Attischen Grabreliefs (1890-1922), no.1563, pl. CCCXXIX
Möbius: Die Ornamate der Griechischen Grabstelen (1929), 41, note 22 & 89 (for anthemion)
Inscription: IG II-III, 6304
Date:
c.340-320 BCE
Inscription:
Epikrates son of Kephisios of the deme of Ionidai
Provenance:
Found at Salamis
