Description:
White marble relief sculpture panel, showing an Amazonomachy.
Text:
Inscribed on upper moulding, which is broken to right.
Letters:
c. 0.03.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (context, lettering)
Findspot:
South Agora, Agora Gate, during excavation
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1980)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (Agora Gate 2, previously Nymphaeum 2)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 vac. Θ vac. [·· ? ··]
1   Θ   [ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
θ
</orig>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

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

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

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)

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