Currently not on view
Stele of Eubolas,
probably 1st–early 2nd century CE
Roman
2000-92
Information
Title
Stele of Eubolas
Dates
probably 1st–early 2nd century CE
Medium
Somewhat coarse-grained, light gray marble
Dimensions
20.2 x 29.4 x 1.8 cm (7 15/16 x 11 9/16 x 11/16 in.)
letter: h. 1.5 - 2.1 cm
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2000-92
Place Excavated
Turkey, Antioch on the Orontes
Inscription
The single-line inscription runs between the two legs of the couch and is interrupted by the table:
[translated as]: Be of good cheer, Eubolas! (See accession card for reproduction).;
Period
Type
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Subject
Purchased April 1938 by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Louis Jalabert and René Mouterde, Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de la Syrie, (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1929-2016). , Vol. 3, part 1: cat. no. 931; p. 508-9
- Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III: the excavations 1937–1939, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941)., cat. no. 198, pp. 167-168, pl. 41 and 45
- Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000)., p. 163-7
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 2
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 60 (2001): p. 66-93., p. 79
- Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman, eds., Roman in the provinces: art on the periphery of empire, (Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)., p. 342; fig. 180
