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Columella des Apollonios, marble, chiseled, marble, total: height: 83.3 cm; diameter: 19.9 cm (shaft); diameter: 22.4 cm, inscription: on shaft: , Grave monument, grave equipment, Greek script, early Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, The small marble column, the lower end of which was roughly hewn for insertion into the earth, represents a type of grave monument for which Cicero (De legibus 2, 66) has handed down the name 'columella'. Beside this simpler type, there were examples with a flat cut off end, which could be embedded into a base. The Hamburg grave column shows no other decoration than a simple round bar (torus) about 5 cm below the upper edge. A three-line, rather irregularly executed Greek inscription gives the name, patronymic and origin of the deceased: Apollonios, son of Sousarion, comes from Kios, a city on the Propontis, the later Prusias. The grave column is certainly from the time after the grave-luxus prohibition of Demetrios of Phaleron in 317 B.C. The letter forms of the inscription allow a dating into the early 3rd century B.C.
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Columella des Apollonios, marble, chiseled, marble, total: height: 83.3 cm; diameter: 19.9 cm (shaft); diameter: 22.4 cm, inscription: on shaft: , Grave monument, grave equipment, Greek script, early Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, The small marble column, the lower end of which was roughly hewn for insertion into the earth, represents a type of grave monument for which Cicero (De legibus 2, 66) has handed down the name 'columella'. Beside this simpler type, there were examples with a flat cut off end, which could be embedded into a base. The Hamburg grave column shows no other decoration than a simple round bar (torus) about 5 cm below the upper edge. A three-line, rather irregularly executed Greek inscription gives the name, patronymic and origin of the deceased: Apollonios, son of Sousarion, comes from Kios, a city on the Propontis, the later Prusias. The grave column is certainly from the time after the grave-luxus prohibition of Demetrios of Phaleron in 317 B.C. The letter forms of the inscription allow a dating into the early 3rd century B.C.
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Image size:
2488 x 4320 px | 30.8 MB
Print size:
21.1 x 36.6 cm | 8.3 x 14.4 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
APOLLONIOS • BASE • BESIDE • CERTAINLY • CHISELED • CICERO • CITY • COLUMELLA DES APOLLONIOS • COMES • DATING • DE LEGIBUS 2 • DECEASED • DECORATION • DÉMÉTRIOS • DIAMETER • EARLY 3RD CENTURY B. C • EARLY HELLENISTIC • EARTH • EMBEDDED • EXAMPLES • FLAT CUT OFF • GO OUT • GOING OUT (FOR THE EVENING) • GRAVE COLUMN • GRAVE EQUIPMENT • GRAVE MONUMENT • GRAVE-LUXUS PROHIBITION • GREEK ANTIQUITY • GREEK LETTERS • GREEK SCRIPT • GREEK WRITING • GREEK • HAMBURG GRAVE COLUMN • HANDED DOWN • INSCRIPTION ALLOW • INSCRIPTION • INSERTION • IRREGULARLY EXECUTED GREEK INSCRIPTION GIVES • KIOS • LATER PRUSIAS • LEAVE • LESSER • LETTER FORMS • LOWER • MARBLE • MARBRE • NAME 'COLUMELLA' • NAME • NO • ON SHAFT • ORIGIN • PATRONYMIC • PHALERON • PROPONTIS • REPRESENTS • ROUGHLY HEWN • SHAFT • SIMPLE ROUND BAR • SIMPLER TYPE • SMALL MARBLE COLUMN • SON • SOUSARION • THREE-LINE • TIME • TORUS • TOWN • TOWNS • TYPE • UPPER EDGE
