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Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πειραιά
detail (above): Bourogiannis 2021 (fig.2)
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location: Piraeus, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πειραιά;
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (copy)
registry: ΑΜΠ 3582; RMO CF*8 CAb2
findspot: Attica (Piraeus)
date: first half of 4th BCE
measure: x.410, z.600m
RMO cast (text only): x.162 y.011, z.044m
material: limestone?
iconography: see notes
inscription: KAI 56, CIS I.120, IG II²8440
ΕΡΗΝΗ ⋮ ΒΥΖΑΝΤƖΑ (Ἐρήνη ⋮ Βυζαντία)
HRNᵓ BᶜLT BZNTY
translation:
Irene, burgess of Byzantium
provenance: discovered 1831; cast donation of C. T. Falbe, 1841
bibliography: Leemans 1842: CAb2; Lidzbarski 1898: 425b 1, Taf. VIII 4; Hoftijzer 1963: n.11; Steinhauer 2001: 325 fig.432; Bourogiannis 2021
notes: RMO has a cast of the Phoenician text only; original naiskos-type grave marker depicts deceased seated on high-backed chair to the right, wearing sleeveless khitōn with an himation that she grasps with her raised right hand, draped over back of her head, with her left hand in lap; to the left, facing deceased, a female figure wearing a khitōn and himation holds the infant child of the deceased
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