Slab (A758), Archaeological Museum of Paros. The scene shows Archilochus himself reclining on a couch, his wife seated on the left and a boy on the right offering wine to the poet. His arms hang on the wall: breastplate, shield, quiver and lyre. Both slabs were found in the floor of the church of Ekatontapyliani and probably come from the so-called Archilocheion. Archilochus was honoured on Paros as poet and warrior at the end of the 6th century; he boasted that he was the servant of Lord Enyalios and that he understood the lovely gift of the Muses, and this is acknowledged in a monument showing him banqueting in the presence of the living and receiving the offerings with which they honoured him as warrior and as poet.
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