AIUK46 no. 24 Grave stele of Hierokleia

Grave stele of Hierokleia

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 24 Date: ca. 375-350 BC

Ἱερόκλεια Ναυσινίκου ἐκ Κεραμέων. (relief)

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References:

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 24 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 6328 (PHI)

Conze II no. 868

GIBM IV 936

Clairmont, CAT 1.366

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens, seen over a door west of Piraeus around Karava (BM 1907,1025.3)

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[1] This stele had been seen before 1888 by Dragatsis to the west of Karava over a factory door, and was purchased by the British Museum in 1907. The surviving upper part of the stele contains the head of a girl, Hierokleia, her youth indicated by her long hair let down. The findspot of this monument near Piraeus is rather distant from the deceased’s paternal deme of Kerameis. The family may have shifted its residence to the Piraeus (which was largely inhabited by non-deme members, see discussion in AIUK 4.3A (BM, Decrees of Other Bodies), nos. 1-3), or perhaps Hierokleia had married a Piraeus resident. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 24.

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Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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