Inscribed grave stele with the depiction of an apoxyomenos athlete

The main figure of the stele is a nude young athlete using his strigil in order to clean the left part of his body, under the gaze of his servant.

The dead was apparently unmarried, as the relief depiction of the loutrophoros in the stele’s semicircular top part seems to indicate.

Furthermore, from his name, inscribed on the cornice over the representation,

ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΔΟΥ
ΦΩΚΕΥΣ

it is deduced that he was a metic, given that the name is accompanied by the regional ethnic name and not the demotic, as usual for the Athenian citizens.

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  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands
  • Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, inv. n. MP 1447
  • 350 – 330 BC
  • Preserved h. 0.44 m. W. 27.5 m.
  • Marble
  • Provenance: Unknown
Bibliography
  • Boardman, J. & Kurtz, D. (1994). Έθιμα Ταφής στον Αρχαίο Ελληνικό Κόσμο, (μτφρ. Βιζυηνού, Ο. & Ξένος, Θ.) Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Καρδαμίτσα.
  • Kokula, G. (1984). Marmolutroforen, AM 10, Beiheft , pp. 164, Berlin.
  • Sholl, A. (1996). Die Attischen Bildfeldstelen des 4 jhs.V. Chr. AM 17, Beiheft, pp.. 301, no. 299.
  • Τrail, J. S. (2006). Persons of Ancient Athens, Vol. 15, lemma 834325, pp. 394, Toronto.
Inscribed grave stele with the depiction of an apoxyomenos athlete
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