tombstone
- Museum number
- 1825,0713.1
- Description
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Marble tombstone showing a beardless, muscular youth taking an oil flask (lekythos) from a boy attendant. The scene is framed within an architectural setting and on the side of one of the pilasters is an inscription.
- Production date
- 350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.98 metres (about)
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Width: 1.14 metres (about)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This grave stone (stele) is more likely to have been discovered on the island of Rheneia than on Delos. Delos was a sacred island and it was forbidden to bury anyone there. Those about to die or give birth were quickly sent across the narrow channel to the neighbouring island of Rheneia, which had a large cemetery.
- Location
- On display (G20)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990, 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.114
1991, 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.114
1991, 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.114
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Acquisition notes
- Register records that the marbles were collected about 1810 by Col Rooke in the archipelago, chiefly at Delos. They became the property of his brother Mr William Rooke, who gave them to Mr Impey, who transferred them to the Trustees on condition that they brought them to England and paid warehouse charges. See Letters on Antiquities and Additions to Antiquities 1825-26.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1825,0713.1
