Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: 12: Great North Museum: Hancock: Great North Museum: Hancock

AIUK 12 presents the first edition of a fourth-century Attic funerary monument in the collection of the Great North Museum: Hancock in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The iconography of this monument offers tantalising insights into the life and most likely premature death of Pantakles, the person named in the inscription. The stele was added to the Greek collection of the museum in 1980; we discuss the role of Professor Brian Shefton (1919-2012) in its purchase and the development of a public collection which has contributed greatly to the accessibility of Greek antiquities to the general public in the north-east of England.