The Milesian community was the largest in population of all the foreign communities settled in ancient Athens. Photo: inscribe funeral stele from Athens, showing two farmers, as can be seen from the ploughshare depicted on the pediment. Above: the inscription: EUKARPOS PHILOXENOU MEILESIOS PHILOXENOS MEILESIOU. Second half of 2nd century A.D. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1243. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ARF. Romiopoulou, Κ., Ellinoromaika glypta tou Ethnikou Archaiologikou Mouseiou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Resoruces & Expropriations Fund, Athens 1997, p. 87, ill. 87. © Hellenic Ministry of Culture