Stele of Lyseas Find-spot: found at Velanideza (1839), not far from the stele of Aristion. Athens, National Museum 30. Shaft: Pentelic marble; base: Hymettian. H. 1.95 m. Painted: bearded man wearing chiton; below a racehorse. Inscription 'The father Semon erected here a sema to Lyseas' References Jeffery, L.H. 1962. The inscribed gravestones of archaic Attica. Annual of the British School at Athens 57: 141, no. 53. Richter, Gisela M.A. 1961. Archaic gravestones of Attica (London: Phaidon Press), 48, 170, figs. 159-60, 215, no. 70.
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