Winbolt no. 2: Funerary relief of Agatheia and Brithon

Modern Publication(s): Winbolt no. 2 (editio princeps), Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones 2. 868.

Brief description: Funerary relief

Attributes

Inscription Type: Funerary relief

Object Type: Stele crowned by pediment

Material: Marble (Clairmont)

Original Location: Unknown, but ‘there is a Καλαμύδη in Crete, and possibly Agatheia and Brithon were Cretans.’ (Winbolt)

Provenance: Unknown (see above).

Date: Unknown.

Dimensions: 0.675 m; 0.45 m (Clairmont)

Layout: ‘The monument is in three divisions: a pediment, a slab ornamented with three pateras and a Greek inscription, and three sculptured figures.’ (Winbolt). ‘In the panel, left, a lady is seated facing right and holding out her arm to clasp the hand of her husband, who stands facing her, holding in his left hand a spear which rests on his shoulder. He is dressed in a short tunic. Under his forearm their child is standing.’ (Winbolt)

Writing: Two inscribed lines consisting of two names with ethnics. Variation in the penultimate syllable of the ethnic: ΚΑΛΑΜΥΟΔΑ, ΚΑΛΑΜΥΟΙΔΑ. (Winbolt)

Condition: Damage to the central part and only the right akroterion is preserved; the lower legs of the figures of Agatheia and Brithon are missing (Clairmont).

Decoration: ‘…ornamented with three pateras … and three sculptured figures.’ (Winbolt)

Collection

Location: Bignor Park: ‘built into the walls of a garden house’. (Winbolt)

Collector(s): ‘Almost certainly brought over to England by Mr. John Hawkins.’ (Winbolt)

Date collected: Presumably reached Bignor Park when Mr. John Hawkins settled down there in 1806 (Winbolt).

Accession or catalogue number: Not known.

Translation

Agatheia from Kalamyde

Brithon from Kalamyde

Bibliography

A. Becket, The Sussex County Magazine vol. 3 (1929) 408.

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

A. Scholl, Die attischen Bildfeldstelen des 4. Jhs. v. Chr.: Untersuchungen zu den kleinformatigen Grabreliefs im spätklassischen Athen (Berlin 1996). 

C. C. Vermeule, ‘Notes on a new edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain’, AJA 59 No. 2 (1955), 129-150 (130 s.v. Bignor Park).

S. E. Winbolt, ‘Ancient sculptured marbles at Bignor Park, Sussex’, JHS 48 No. 2 (1928) 178-182, no. 2.

Image(s)

Winbolt, Figure 2, No. 2.