葬礼纪念碑阶梯基座上的石灰岩块的前面 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	葬礼纪念碑阶梯基座上的石灰岩块的前面
品名（英）	Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument
入馆年号	1916年，16.174.6
策展部门	希腊和罗马艺术（Greek and Roman Art）
创作者	Phaidimos
创作年份	公元前 575 - 公元前 525
创作地区
分类	石雕（Stone Sculpture）
尺寸	整体: 12 1/2 x 33 1/2英寸 (31.8 x 85.1厘米)
介绍（中）	题词：在Chairedemos去世时，他的父亲Amphichares建立了这座纪念碑，哀悼一个好儿子。费迪莫斯做到了。墓志铭由两行特殊形式的诗歌组成（指趾六角形），当时用于表达对死亡的悲伤。紧随其后的是雕塑家法迪莫斯的名字，他从阿提卡发现的另外两个铭文中得知。这些行被刻在从右到左和从左到右交替阅读。希腊人从腓尼基人那里获得了字母表，他们从右到左书写。希腊人很快发现从左到右书写更方便，但是，直到公元前六世纪末，铭文行有时是交替雕刻的。这种书写方法被称为boustrophedon （牛转），因为它在每行的末尾转动，就像牛在每条沟的末端用犁转动一样。
介绍（英）	Inscribed: on the death of Chairedemos his father Amphichares set up this monument mourning a good son. Phaidimos made it. The epitaph consists of two lines of poetry in the special form (dactylic hexameter) that was used at this time to express grief over a death. It is followed by the name of the sculptor, Phaidimos, who is known from two other inscriptions found in Attica. These lines are inscribed to read alternately from right to left and left to right. The Phoenicians, from whom the Greeks derived the alphabet, wrote from right to left. The Greeks soon found that writing from left to right was more convenient, but, until the end of the sixth century B.C., lines of inscriptions were sometimes carved in alternating directions. This method of writing was called boustrophedon (ox-turning) because it turns at the end of each line, as the ox turns with the plow at the end of each furrow.