Part of an inscribed perirrhanterion base

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Inventory number

ΕΜ 6319

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Pedestal

Period

Classical Period

Date

460-450 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.5 m
Diameter: 0.33 m

Material

Marble from Penteli

Location

First Floor, West

Description
Bibliography

Found in 1832 near the Erechtheion. It is part of the base of a perirrhanterion (water basin) in the form of a low column with three flutes and floral relief decoration on one side and an inscription on the other.

The inscription is as follows: ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΣ ΟΙΝΟΧΑΡΕΣ ΣΟΙΝΑΥΤΟ ΠΕΡΓΑΣΕΘΕΝ ΠΟΣΕΙΔΟΝΙ ΕΡΕΧΘΕΙ ΑΝΕΘΕΤΕΝ, meaning “Epiteles and Oinochares, Sonautes’ sons from the municipality of Pergason, dedicated this to Poseidon-Erechtheus”.

Raubitschek, A.E., Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis. A Catalogue of the Inscriptions of the Sixth and Fifth Century BC, Cambridge Mass, 1949, σελ. 412, αρ. κατ. 384
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 38 , αρ. κατ. 19
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 39 , αρ. κατ. 33
Inscriptiones Graecae Ι3 , αρ. κατ. 873
Osborne, M.J., Byrne, S.J., A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II: Attica, Oxford, 1994, σελ. 132, 349
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 42 , αρ. κατ. 42
Ματθαίου, Α., Μαλούχου, Γ., Συνοπτικός κατάλογος των επιγραφών της Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα, 2012, σελ. 24
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 256-257, εικ. 315