greek-museums:Archaeological Museum of Brauron:An attic grave stele, found in Porto Rafti (c. 410-40
greek-museums:Archaeological Museum of Brauron:An attic grave stele, found in Porto Rafti (c. 410-400 B.C)The relief depicts three figures, while two of the inscribed names are still discernible; Kleobolos and Menon.The young man at the middle is depicted as a palaestrite holding a strigil and an aryballos. He is depicted along with his dog, holding a small hare.The bearded man is depicted wearing an attic helmet, holding a shield and a spear. Kleobolos and Menon are the names of the athlete and the warrior respectively. At the left of the young man there is another man, probably the father of Kleobolos, draped in his himation.The stele presents a certain interest in its architectural elements and choices of depiction. Both Kleobolos and Menon are dead. Menon could also be the trierarchos Menon (a type of naval officer), whose name appears in a catalogue of fallen men towards the end of the Peloponnesian war. The death of the young Kleobolos was the reason for the commission of this funerary monument, but his already dead relative was also included.The lower part of the stele was discovered in a farm in Porto Rafti in the location of Drivlia in 1961/62 and was delivered in the museum in 1963. The upper part had been looted long ago. It was discovered and identified in 1990 from a published catalogue for the exhibition of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Professor Georgios Despines identified the exhibit and the long process for bringing it back home began. The fragment of the relief was finally delivered in Greece on the 1st of August in 2008. -- source link