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 Δευτέρα Φθίνοντος/ Δευτέρα μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIX day From today’s sunset: twenty-ninth day (secon

Δευτέρα Φθίνοντος/ Δευτέρα μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIX day
From today’s sunset: twenty-ninth day (second waning of the third decade) of Metageitnion. ‘Impure’ day. Attested are libations for the deceased and ceremonies in their honor.
https://www.academia.edu/5020720/Tradizione_Ellenica-_Onori_ai_Defunti

(Woman visiting a grave and bringing offerings to the deceased. From Attica, ca. 475-450 BCE. Now in the Risd Museum…)


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 Δευτέρα Φθίνοντος/ Δευτέρα μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIX day From today’s sunset: twenty-ninth day (secon

Δευτέρα Φθίνοντος/ Δευτέρα μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIX day
From today’s sunset: twenty-ninth day (second waning of the third decade) of Boedromion. ‘Impure’ day. Attested are libations for the deceased and ceremonies in their honor.
https://www.academia.edu/5020720/Tradizione_Ellenica-_Onori_ai_Defunti

(Six figures are carved in low relief in a panel between the raised band at the top and the narrow fillet at the bottom. An elderly, bearded man, seats in a chair and faces left. The name, ‘Kallias’, is inscribed in Greek above his head. He clasps hands with a matronly woman standing before him. She bows her head and raises her left hand to her shoulder. The letters, painted in Greek, ‘….ito’ appear to the right of her head. A second woman stands behind her and holds a colored object in her right hand. To the left of her head is the inscription, ‘Kallis’, and to the right ‘Tarete’. A servant girl stands behind her holding two items: a box hanging from a cord in her lowered right hand, and another box in her more forward left hand. Behind the man’s chair stands a young girl with the inscription ‘Demainete’ directly above her head, and beyond her appears a man with a short beard, a strigil in his raised right hand, and a short cloak from waist to knees. The inscription, “Eubios’ is above his head, and behind his shoulder is the top of a staff or a branch. Grave marker in the form of stone lekythos. From Attica, about 390–380 BCE. Now in the Boston Museum…)


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