IG II(2) 5574: Fragment of a sepulchral relief of Xenokles of Alopeke.
Modern Publication(s): CIG 580; Mus. Worsl., Cl. I, no. 5 (p. 14b); Michaelis no. 53 (p. 234); IG II 1821; IG II(2) 5574; Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones 1.362; SEG LIII/1 232.
Brief description: Fragment of a sepulchral relief
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary: ‘[t]he inscription is definite proof that the present work is a grave, not a votive relief.’ (Clairmont)
Object Type: ‘Small relief; the original shape of the memorial is unknown.’ (Clairmont)
Material: White marble (Clairmont)
Original Location:
Provenance: Athens
Date: Fourth century BC (Kirchner, app. crit. to IG II(2) 5574)
Dimensions:
Layout: Two lines of preserved text inscribed above the relief.
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: ‘Much defaced.’ (Michaelis). ‘The hindlegs of the horse are missing; the forelegs are fragmentary.’ (Clairmont)
Decoration: ‘Xenokles… is depicted as a rider on horseback, the animal moving to the l[eft]. Xenokles wears knee-long, belted chiton with overfold (?). He has a Korinthian helmet. The l[eft] hand is close to the horse’s mane and was probably holding the reins.’ (Clairmont)
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: ‘Once in Worsley’s collection and thus known by the 18th century.’ (Clairmont) ‘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
Xenokles son of Polyar… of Alopeke
- 'J. L. Shear, JHS 123 (2003) 178 restores this inscription on the basis of our lemma no. 198 [= SEG LIII/1 198] as [Ξ]εν[ο]κλῆς Πολυαρ[άτου] Ἀλωπ[εκῆθεν]; cf. PA 11213, LGPN II s.v. Ξενοκλῆς 33.’ (SEG LIII/1 232)
Bibliography
C. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones vol. 1 (Kilchberg, Switzerland 1993).
A. Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs (Band II, Text) (Berlin 1900) no. 1162
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. 53, p. 234
J. L. Shear, ‘Atarbos' Base and the Panathenaia’, JHS 123 (2003) 164-180 (p. 178).
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 1, no. 5 (p. 14b); pp. 15-16.
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Image(s)
Conze no. 1162
Worlsey Class I, no. 5 (p. 14b)
