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PHOENICIAN LIONS: The Funerary Stele of the Phoenician Shem/ Antipatros.

This article offers a new account of the funerary stele of the Phoenician Shem/ Antipatros (IGII 8388, CEG 596). Following early symbolic readings of the monument，it adopts a comparative approach in order to explain the difficult symbolism of the relief, as well as the obscure expressions of the Gre...

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Published in:Hesperia Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 459 - 487
Main Author: Tribulato, Olga
Format: Article
Published: American School of Classical Studies at Athens Jul-Sep2013
Subjects:
Grave stele (Archaeology)
Sepulchral monuments
Epigram
Lions in art
Greek inscriptions
Phoenician inscriptions
Greek relief sculpture
Epitaphs
Greece
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