| Inventory Number: I 3845 |
| Section Number: ΗΗ 129 |
| Title: Grave Relief Fragment |
| Category: Inscriptions |
| Description: Inscribed fragment of grave relief of Athenokles. Broken at the bottom. The full width is preserved, but the surface is chipped at the right. Preserved is the head of a bearded man, left, wearing a petasos. In the upper right corner of the field is the end of his staff. The field is framed at either side by a carefully profiled anta, above by an "epistyle" with a broad slightly sunken fascia between two narrow ones, and a crowning moulding consisting of an ovolo and a plain fascia. Back rough picked; sides toothed; top smooth. The flesh surfaces polished; the hair carefully rendered; background and hat left slightly rough. The inscription, in two lines, is cut on the central fascia of the epistyle. On the ovolo was a painted egg and dart, 0.032m. on centers. About fourty-one lines of the inscription preservced. Pentelic marble. ADDENDA Fragment with neck and shoulders (S 56) added in 1953. |
| Context: Found in the floor of the church of Christ, north of the Eleusinion. Used upside down as paving slab. |
| Storage: Upper Colonnade-North End |
| Negatives: Leica, 6-190, 6-227, 6-228, LXI-96, color slide. |
| Dimensions: P.H. 0.415, (of two fragments as joined) 0.535; Lett. H. 0.012; W. 0.54; Th. 0.08 |
| Chronology: Before 350 B.C. |
| Date Of Discovery: 23 March 1936 |
| Section: ΗΗ |
| Grid: T 17 |
| Bibliography: Clairmont (1993), no. 1.193. |
| Guide (1976), p. 300. |
| AgoraPicBk 10 (1966), fig. 34. |
| Guide (1962), p. 192. |
| Peek (1955), no. 344. |
| ILN (18 July 1936). |
| Agora XVII, no. 697, p. 133. |
| IG II2, no. 10593. |
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