4.307. Fragmentary title for Amazonomachy sculpture
- 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- Unpublished.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>
</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"
/>
- 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)
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