The Kallithea monument is a tomb of a family from Istria (Nikeratos and his son Polyxenos), which was excavated in Kallithea (Athens, Greece). The monument itself dates back to the 4th century BC (around 320 BC) and contains a polychrome frieze. It is currently located at the Piraeus Archaeological Museum in Piraeus.
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“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,—a stone to a bone? “Here lies,”M”Here lies”;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)