IG II(2) 13044: Fragment of the sepulchral stele of Khairion.
Modern Publication(s): CIG 734; Mus. Worsl., Cl. I, no. 13 (p. 28a); Michaelis no. 13 (p. 228); IG III 3426; IG II(2) 13044
Brief description: Fragment of a sepulchral stele
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: Stele
Material: ‘Pentelic’ marble (Michaelis)
Original Location:
Provenance: ‘Found at Athens.’ (Dallaway)
Date: ‘The fragment dates from after 350 [BC].’ (Clairmont)
Dimensions: H: 0.33; L. 0.22 (Michaelis)
Layout: One preserved line of inscribed text
Writing: Inscribed on the architrave
Condition: ‘Only the bearded head and the breast of the principal figure are still preserved.’ (Michaelis)
Decoration:
Collection
Location: Brocklesby Park: ‘most of the Yarborough and Worlsey marbles seem to be in the sculpture Gallery behind the house.’ (Vermeule 1955 p. 131)
Collector(s): Sir Richard Worlsey; Worsley’s collection then passed on to the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park (see Michaelis pp. 115-117).
Date collected: Collected by Sir Richard Worsley during his travels in Greece 1785-7. ‘On the sale of the Appuldurcomb[e] property the collection formed by Worsley was removed to the Earl of Yarborough’s seat, Brocklesby Park…’ (Lee p. 37)
Accession or catalogue number: Not known
Translation
Khairion Mu…
Bibliography
Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones vol. 3 (Kilchberg, Switzerland 1993) 3.453a n. 3 (p. 384)
A. Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs (Band III, Text) (Berlin 1906) no. 1260
A. Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs (Band III, Tafeln I) (Berlin 1906) Plate CCLXXII
J. Dallaway, Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or Comparative Remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, & Painting, Chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford (London 1800) p. 362 no. 34.
S. Lee, Dictionary of National Biography vol. 63 Wordsworth- Zuylestein (London 1900) s.v. Sir Richard Worsley (p. 37).
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge 1882) no. 13 (p. 228)
C. C. Vermeule, ‘Notes on a new edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain’, AJA 59 No. 2 (1955), 129-150 (p. 130 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain part two’, AJA 60 no. 4 (1956) 321-350 (pp. 324-325 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
R. Worsley, Museum Worsleyanum (London 1824) Class I, no. 13 (p. 28a); pp. 29-30.
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Image(s)
Conze Plate CCLXXII
Worlsey Class I, no. 13 (p. 28a)
