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'''Modern Publication(s):''' ''CIG'' 1091; ''Mus''. ''Worsl''., Cl. I, no. 6 (p. 14c); Michaelis no. 65 (p. 235); ''IG'' VII 132

'''Brief description:''' Sepulchral relief

== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' Funerary

'''Object Type:''' Relief

'''Material:'''

'''Original Location:'''

'''Provenance:''' Megara (Boeckh; Worsley)

'''Date:''' ‘Style of the fourth century.’ (Michaelis)

'''Dimensions:''' H: 0.42; L: 0.41 (Michaelis)

'''Layout:''' Inscribed relief depicting a standing male offering his hand to a seated female, and a youth standing in the background. Above the relief, on the top left and moving across to the centre, is inscribed ΩΝΑΡΙΔΙΟΚΛΕΙΑ; on the right-hand-side further down, and just above the relief, is inscribed ΚΑΛΑΙ; at the top-centre of the relief itself is inscribed ΚΑΦΙΣΙΩΝ.

'''Writing:''' Inscribed; readings of the text vary:

a) ΩΝΑΡΙΔΙΟΚΛΕΙΑ/- - - - ΚΑΛΑΙ/ ΚΑΦΙΣΙΩΝ (Boeckh)

b) ΩΝΑΡΙ Διόκλεια/ vacat./ [ - - - - - ] Καλ<λ>ι[ - - - ]/ Καφισίων (Dittenberger)

c) Worsley: ‘In the bass-relief No. VI we read the name of the deceased Cafision, according to the Doric dialect used at Megara, instead of Cefision. The other letters express two female names in the vocative case, that is, the beautiful Onari and Dioclea.’

d) Michaelis: ‘above [the relief] is inscribed Ἴων and Ἀριστόκλεια; in the relief field itself Καφισίων; over the field καλαί is cut in.’

'''Condition:''' ‘The slab has been sawn off above and below.’ (Michaelis)

'''Decoration:''' ‘In a slightly sunken relief the bearded Ion [sic?] is offering his r[ight] hand in farewell to Aristokleia [sic?]. She is sitting down and is fully draped, but unveiled. The little Kaphision is standing by her chair looking up to her.’ (Michaelis)

== 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 ==
---ONARI Diokleia ---
--- Kal<l>i---
--- Kaphision ---

== Bibliography ==

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. 65 (p. 235).

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. 6 (p. 14c); pp. 15-16.

== Web Links ==
[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=143609&bookid=13&region=3 Greek text, from PHI]

== Image(s) ==
Worsley Cl. I, no. 6 (p. 14c)

IG VII 132: Megarian sepulchral relief. - Revision history

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