IG II(2) 6711: Sepulchral stele of Khairippe

Modern Publication(s): Michaelis no. 10; IG 2.2290; IG II² 6711; Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones 2.358c

Brief description: Sepulchral stele

Attributes

Inscription Type: Tombstone

Object Type: Stele

Material: ‘Pentelic’ marble (Michaelis)

Original Location:

Provenance: Athens/Attica

Date: Third century BC

Dimensions: 0.50 m; 0.39 m (Clairmont).

Layout: Two lines of text (non-stoichedon). ‘The deme reference in the second line … is written in slightly larger letters and is spread out below the first line with the first and last letters aligned.’ (Clairmont)

Writing: Inscribed

Condition: The slab is broken at the lower end (Michaelis). ‘The central akroterion is missing, both lateral akroteria are damaged.’ (Clairmont)

Decoration: ‘A female, draped in chiton and mantle, unveiled, sits to right on a chair with footstool, and stretches her right hand to a bearded man standing opposite her.’ (Michaelis)

Collection

Location: Broom Hall (Scotland, Fife): along the walls of the spacious hall (Michaelis).

Collector(s): Lord Elgin.

Date collected: Not known. Michaelis noted that ‘as the marble chair [as well as some other marbles] did not form part of Elgin’s collection offered for sale to the nation in 1816, it may have been brought to Scotland at a later time.’

Accession or catalogue number: Not known.

Translation

Khairippe daughter of Euphranor of Lamptrai.

Bibliography

C. W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones vol. 2 (Akanthus 1993).

A. Michaelis, ‘Ancient marbles in Great Britain: Supplement I’, JHS 5 (1884) 143-161, no. 10.

Web Links

Greek text, from PHI