2.702. Sculptor's signature of Apollonios Aster
- Description:
- Lower part of an statue, which has been published (see bibliography).
- Text:
- Inscribed on a helmet next to the left foot.
- Letters:
- Ave. 0.015-0.02.
- Date:
- ?Early 1st century A.D. (lettering, sculpture)
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, East area.
- Original Location:
- Unknown, perhaps Bouleuterion/Odeon area
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.439)
- Bibliography:
- Published, Erim, Inan Rosenbaum, under no. 79; by Erim-Reynolds, 'Sculptors' no.5, whence SEG 40 1990.928; published C. Hallett, AJA 102 (1998), 59-89, 67, whence BullEp 1998.384. Published, with the statue, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 14
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1991).
- 1 Ἀπολλώ-
- 2νιος Χρυσίπ-
- 3που Ἀστὴρ
- 4 ἐποίησεν
- 1ΑΠΟΛΛΩ
- 2ΝΙΟΣΧΡΥΣΙΠ
- 3ΠΟΥΑΣΤΗΡ
- 4ΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ
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Ἀπολλώ
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νιος
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που
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ἐποίησεν
Translation:
Apollonios Aster, son of Chrysippos, made (this)
Commentary:
See Erim-Reynolds, loc. cit.; for the statue see bibliography.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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