Fragmentary <rs type="textType" cert="low">title</rs> for Amazonomachy sculpture

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital

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Description of Monument

White marble relief sculpture panel, showing an Amazonomachy.

Description of Text

Inscribed on upper moulding, which is broken to right.

Letters

0.03.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (context, lettering)

Edition θ
Translation

No translation possible

Commentary

This could be an assembly number, but it is clearly cut and very visible; just possibly a label, e.g. Θησεύς for the young hero below.

For a description of the panel see P. Linant de Bellefonds, Aph.Papers III, 174-86, 175-7.

Locations

South Agora, Agora Gate, during excavation Unknown Museum (1980)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (Agora Gate 2, previously Nymphaeum 2)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1980)