Grave_relief_of_Dexileos,_son_of_Lysanias,_of_Thorikos_(Ca._390_BC)_(4454389225).jpg

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Drawing of the stele, with inscription. [1]
  • Italiano: La stele funeraria per Dexileos (morto in battaglia nel 394/3 a.C.), figlio di Lysanias, dal demo di Thorikos (ca. 390 a.C.). Esposta nel Museo archeologico del Ceramico (Atene) .
  • English: Grave relief of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, of Thorikos (ca. 390 BC). On the pedestal is carved the inscription:
"Dexileos, son of Lysanias of Thorikos, was born when Teisandros was archon and died in Corinth, when Euboulides was archon, one of the five horsemen". Dexileos was a horseman in the Athenian cavalry and was killed at the age of twenty near Corinth, in 394 BC, when the Athenians were defeated by the Spartans. The ashes of the youth and the others who fell in the battle were taken to Athens and placed in the Dmosion Sema (public burial ground). The relief on a site where the family grave enclosure was latter constructed. The weapons of the two warriors and reins of the horse, made of bronze and attached of the relief now stands in the place where it was found. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens) .
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Grave relief of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, of Thorikos (Ca. 390 BC)

Author Tilemahos Efthimiadis from Athens, Greece
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