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[31d] Grave of Elpis Prepared by Athenaists (I BCE or later) Tanagra - Boeotia


Tanagra (Boeotia, Greece and Macedonia — Pleiades map), I BCE or later
AGRW 31d = IG VII 688 = Marchand 2015, 256-257 (no. 4) = PHI 144167 = AGRW ID# 4498
Copenhagen Inventory info: 935


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Slab of white marble with pediment and acroteria (72 x 55 x 8 cm). Found in 1873-74, now in the Skhimatari Museum (inv. 182).

Elpis. The synod (synodos) of Athena-devotees (Athenaistai) buried her.

Translation by: Kloppenborg



Ἐλπίς· | ταύτην ἔθαψεν ἡ σύνο|δος τῶν Ἀθηναϊστῶν.

Marchand 2015, no. 4. Photo courtesy of Archives P. Roesch – HiSoMA (UMR5189) – MOM, Lyon.

Marchand 2015, no. 4.
Photo courtesy of Archives P. Roesch – HiSoMA (UMR5189) – MOM, Lyon.

Item added: October 23, 2012
Item modified: September 4, 2020
ID number: 4498
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