Currently not on view
Stele of Epigonos and Sekonda,
probably 1st century CE
Roman
2000-95
Information
Title
Stele of Epigonos and Sekonda
Dates
probably 1st century CE
Medium
Coarse-grained white marble
Dimensions
h. 32 cm., w. 26.5 cm., d. 10.4 cm. (12 5/8 x 10 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2000-95
Place Excavated
Turkey,
Inscription
The three-line inscription is cut well and without benefit of incised guide lines: (See unicode) [Epigonos, son of Eisodotos, (and) Sekonda, daughterof Epiga[ ], (both) griefless, farewell!]
Culture
Period
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
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 109
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 60 (2001): p. 66-93., pp. 80–81 (illus.)
