IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.176. i: Dedication of a statue; ii: sculptor's signature

Description: Marble base and statue of Herakles.
Text: i. inscribed on the plinth (die, 0.83 x0.11), and ii. on the tree stump to the left of the figure.
Letters: i. 0.035; lunate epsilon, sigma; cursive omega. ii. 0.015; lunate sigma.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Late Baths, Frigidarium, in Niche D on the east side; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

Text

i
Μ(ᾶρκοϲ) Οὔλπιοϲ Κομίνιοϲ ( vac. 3)
( vac. 1) ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων τῇ πατρίδι
ii
Ἀσκλεπιάδηϲ (sic)
Ἀθην̣α̣ῖ̣οϲ ἐποίε

Diplomatic

Text

i
ΜΟΥΛΠΙΟϹΚΟΜΙΝΙΟϹ      
  ΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ
ii
ΑΣΚΛΕΠΙΑΔΗϹ(sic)
ΑΘΗ...ΟϹΕΠΟΙΕ

ii.2: ΑΘΗΝ[ΑΙ]ΟϹ Kraeling, 1962

English translation

Translation by: Editors

a: M(arkos) Oulpios Kominios (i.e. M(arcus) Ulpius Cominius) from his private means for the Fatherland.

b. Asklepiades, Athenian, made it.

Commentary

For a description and discussion of the statue and the sculptor see Brinkerhoff ap. Kraeling, 183, 196.12 and, more recently, see Fabbricotti, loc.cit.; for the sculptor see also Rosamilia, loc.cit.

It is possible that the statue originally stood in the Odeon where three further dedications by Kominios were found, P.92, P.98, P.99.

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 37, 38, pl. XLV, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.589; republished Fabbricotti, 1985 whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1028, SEG 35.1728. ii only: Rosamilia, 2014, 14.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. i: face (1957, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48742)