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.
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)