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- Museum number
- 1805,0703.188
- Description
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Marble monumental Greek inscription; from the tomb of Aktiakos son of Hermogenes.
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.37 centimetres
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Width: 46.99 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cook 2011, nr. 238:
'A greek sepulchral inscription, twenty inches square, purchac’d at Mr Topham Beauclerk’s sale 1780, and formerly belonging to Mr Topham of Winsor’s collection’ (TY 12/3, hall 29, followed by a transcription and a somewhat inaccurate translation).
Purchased at the Beauclerk sale in May 1780 through Patterson (TY 8/5/1).
Drawings:
* Chambers: B. F. Cook, `The Townley Marbles in Westminster and Bloomsbury’, The British Museum Yearbook, 2 (1977), 48-49, figs. 30-31, no. 19.
Bibliography:
- Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum (Oxford 1874-1916) 1029;
- CIG 3264.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1805
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1805,0703.188