Gravestone

Gravestone

Marble

Lower part of a marble stele showing a man seated on a chair saying farewell to a standing figure before him. Beneath the relief scene is an inscription in five lines of Greek which reads Records of your virtue, Theophile, will never pass unnoticed, modest and excellent and industrious, possessing every virtue. First half of the 4th century BC, found in the summer of 1805 in the Piraeus necropolis. Inscription rather worn.

Purchased from Charles Ede Ltd, London, with funds from the Alumni Friends of the University of Queensland, the Friends of Antiquity, Mr J Ede, the RD Milns Classics and Ancient History Perpetual Endowment Fund, Drs V and H Osiecki, and other generous contributions, 2013

400 BC - 350 BC

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