stela
- Museum number
- 108834
- Description
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Carved black basalt stela; part of a larger stela depicting the Commagenian ruler Antiochos I on the left and Herakles on the right; inscription on the back; incomplete.
- Production date
- 1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 106 centimetres (with stone plinth)
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Height: 93 centimetres
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Thickness: 28 centimetres
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Width: 42 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Herakles previously identified as Apollo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Incomplete
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- Part of collection bequeathed by Lynch, and handled by his solicitors Trower, Still, Parkin & Keeling (ME Corres, January 1914); collection briefly itemised and reported to Trustees by Budge, 7 January 1914 (Reports to Trustees), this item being described as "Figure of Apollo, found at Samosata". Later transferred to G&R where re-registered as 1914,0214.1. The publication by Yorke in 1898 refers to this piece being from "the banks of the Euphrates near Samosata".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 108834
- Registration number
- 1914,0214.60
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BM Inscrip 1048a (old siglum)