Currently not on view
Fragment of a grave stele with a Greek inscription,
4th–6th century
Late Roman
2003-115
Information
Title
Fragment of a grave stele with a Greek inscription
Dates
4th–6th century
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
29.3 x 23.0 x 36.0 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
letters: h. maximum 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2003-115
Place Collected
Turkey, Daphne (now Harbiye), Asia Minor
Place Excavated
Turkey, Seleuceia
Inscription
Є Y Ψ Y X I A P I C T Є I N Є Eủψύχι, ‘Aριστєĩνє. Be of good cheer, Aristinos.
Period
Materials
Subject
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938)., cat. no. 127 [4324-S191], pp. 171-72, pl. 4
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): p. 101-141., illustrated p. 128, p. 138
