Cast of the grave stele of Dexileos, from the Athenian Kerameikos
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Details
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Title
Cast of the grave stele of Dexileos, from the Athenian Kerameikos
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Associated place
Athens (Kerameikos cemetery) (find spot of original) -
Date
2nd half of the 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
175 x 135 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1895.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.D.67
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Catalogue text
Grave stele with pediment and inscribed base, of Dexileos riding
down opponent. Dexileos has short hair and wears belted chiton and
chlamys, and would have held a lance in his right hand. The opponent
below with short hair is naked save a chlamys. He holds a shield in
left hand and would have held a sword in his right. Inscription on
base: ‘Dexileos, son of Lysanios from Thorikos, born in the achonship
of Teisandros (414/3 BC), died in that of Euboulides (394/3 BC), among
the five riders at Corinth’.In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Ensoli S, L’ heroon di Dexileos nel Ceramico di Atene (Rome, 1987)
Knigge U, Der Kerameikos von Athen (Athens, 1988)
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
