Description:
Plain white marble statue base shaft (W. 0.42 x H. 0.92 x D. 0.69) with face cut away, probably for reuse to lower left and covered in cement. Top prepared for an upper element.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Ave. 0.052; poorly aligned and uneven in height; trenches only slightly triangular; rho with a short oblique stroke from the bowl; very few serifed letters.
Date:
Second to first centuries B.C. (lettering).
Findspot:
City, Water Channel area: in excavations
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
In dump near water channel (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Water Channel 1, 84.10, SBI 62).
Bibliography:
Unpublished; referred to by Reynolds, A&R p.150, no.7.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1Ἀντίπα -
2τρος Ἀρ-
3τεμιδώ -
4ρου γυμν[α]-
5σιαρχή - v.
6[σας ·]ΤΟ
7[···]Ι̣ΕΙ
8[···]Η̣Σ
9[···]ΣΚΑ
10 [···]Ρ̣Ν[·]
1ΑΝΤΙΠΑ
2ΤΡΟΣΑΡ
3ΤΕΜΙΔΩ
4ΡΟΥΓΥΜΝ[·]
5ΣΙΑΡΧΗ 
6[··· ·]ΤΟ
7[···]·ΕΙ
8[···]·Σ
9[···]ΣΚΑ
10[···]·Ν[·]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀντίπα
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
τρος
Ἀρ
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
τεμιδώ
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
ρου
γυμν
<supplied reason="lost" >
α
</supplied>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
σιαρχή
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σας
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="right" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
το
</orig>
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ει
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
η
</unclear>
σ
</orig>
<lb n="9" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
σκα
</orig>
<lb n="10" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
ν
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

Antipatros son of Artemidoros who was gymnasiarch [·· ? ··

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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