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Grave Stele from Boeotia

Date early 20th century (plaster cast), 430-420 BC (original)
Object type relief
Medium, technique plaster
Dimensions

219 x 77,5 x 14 cm

Inventory number Ag.222
Collection Classical Antiquites - Plaster casts
On view Star Fortress (Komárom), Athenian men and women from the fourth century BC, Corridor A

The narrow stele commemorates a youth from Boeotia. He is standing naked save for his mantle thrown over the left shoulder and held together in his right hand. He holds the basic equipment for after sports care in his left hand: a bottle filled with scented oil (aryballos) and a scraper (strigilis). His dog sits attentively at his feet; the youth was thus commemorated as an athlete and hunter. The relief was made of Boeotian stone in a style different from that of the Athenian reliefs. It is probably the work of a local sculptor. The stele was later reused and engraved with the name of a man called Agathokles.

References

Hekler, Antal, Az antik gipszgyűjtemény I-II., Budapest, 1919-1920, 1923, no. no. 244.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.

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