Bull at the Keramaikos Museum in Athens

Bull at the Kerameikos Cemetery Museum in Athens

Bull from the grave enclosure of Dionysios of Kollytos, near the Way of the Tombs.
The bull stood on a high pedestal in the middle of the grave enclosure, behind a naiskos on which were carved epigrams and the name and patronymic of the deceased, Dionysios son of Alphinos. Dionysios, who died unmarried, lived in the deme of Kollytos, near the Kerameikos, and on the island of Samos, where he served as treasurer of the Heraion for the year 346/5 BC.
345-340 BC.

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