8.88. i. Honours for Piseas, circuit-victor. ii. Sculptor's signature: Polyneikes
- Description:
- A statue (for description see bibliography) and blue marble statue base with simple moulding above, broken below and to the right (H. 0.25 x W. 0.57 x D. 0.28).
- Text:
- i. Inscribed on the face of the base; ii inscribed on the plinth of the statue.
- Letters:
- i.: Letters square, probably third century; 0.04ii: cursive, l.1, 0.03; l.2. 0.025.
- Date:
- Third century (lettering, sculpture)
- Findspot:
- Theatre, near the Porta Regia.
- Original Location:
- Theatre, south analemma
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (with statue) (2004)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (71.337, 70.509)
- Bibliography:
- i published by Roueché, PPA 75;ii published by Erim-Reynolds, 'Sculptors' no.8, whence SEG 40 1990.931. Both published, with the statue, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 39
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Reynolds (1991).
- 1 Πίσεαν Πισέου
- 2 περιοδονίκην
- 3 leaf ἡ πατρίς leaf
- 1Πολυνείκ[ης Ἀφρ]οδεισιεὺς
- 2 vac. ἐποί[ει] vacat
- 1ΠΙΣΕΑΝΠΙΣΕΟΥ
- 2ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΝΙΚΗΝ
- 3 leaf ΗΠΑΤΡΙΣ leaf
- 1ΠΟΛΥΝΕΙΚ[·····]ΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΥΣ
- 2 ΕΠΟΙ[··]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Πίσεαν
Πισέου
<lb
n="2"
/>
περιοδονίκην
<lb
n="3"
/>
<g
type="leaf"
/>
ἡ
πατρίς
<g
type="leaf"
/>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Πολυνείκ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ης
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀφρ
</supplied>
οδεισιεὺς
<lb
n="2"
/>
<space
extent="5"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ἐποί
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ει
</supplied>
<space
extent="8"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
i: The fatherland (honours) Piseas, son of Piseas, circuit-victor.
ii: Polyneikes, Aphrodisian, made (this)
Commentary:
See bibliography.
Photographs:
- i and ii displayed (2004)
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- Text i (2004)
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- Text i (2000)
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- Text ii (2004)
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- Text ii (1978)
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