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Roman funerary stelai from the cemetery outside the Phalerian Gate

• Ασημακοπούλου- Λιντζέρη, Σταυρούλα

Not far from the Phalerian Gate, there was discovered part of a cemetery with Classical and Roman burials that belonged to the “Phaleric cemeteries” that extended on either side of the Phalerian road and its byways, and which date from the Sub-Mycenaean to Early Christian period. At this site, where a workshop had been built during the Late Imperial age (3rd-4th c. AD), two Roman funerary stelai came to light. They had been used as flooring in the workshop, with their carved surfaces facing down, and had remained there during the entire period when the workshop was in operation.One of the stelai depicts a young seated woman, probably the Milesian Myrrhine, daughter of Poseidonios, as attested by the three-line inscription (partly broken off) preserved on the epistyle. It very likely dates to the first quarter of the 1st c. AD.The second stele depicts a couple, Aphrodeisios, son of Archelaos, most probably a Milesian - as the inscription preserved on the cornice attests - and his wife. It most probably dates to the early or middle Antonine period. The man follows the type of himation-clad males, and his wife the statuary type of the “Small Herakleiotissa”, with selective use of elements from the “Large Herakleiotissa” as well.

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