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Inscriptions from Commagene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

P. M. Fraser
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I. In 1890 Puchstein published in Humann-Puchstein, Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien, 368 ff., a sculptured and inscribed stele from Selik, a village nine and a half kms. north of Samsat (Samosata), bearing on the front face a relief representing Heracles greeting King Antiochus I of Commagene, an almost exact copy of one of the Nemrud-Daǧ reliefs. The stele has been used as an oil-press, and the inscribed surface of the back has been entirely removed for much of its extent. The text of the inscription, in which Antiochus establishes various cult-practices connected with himself, is not complete in itself, but contains the last forty-seven lines of a document which must have begun on another stele, possibly that of which there has been published a fragment, found at Palas, thirty kms. south-west of Selik.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 47 , November 1952 , pp. 96 - 101
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1952

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References

1 Humann-Puchstein, op. cit., Tafeln, no. xxxix B.

2 Published by Jacopi, Dalla Paflagonia alla Commagene (Estratto del Bolletino del R. Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell' Arte), VII (1937). Jacopi writes (24): ‘La stele proviene, a quanto si afferma, da Palas, sull' Eufrate’. Jacopi regarded the inscription as complete in itself, but J. Keil, in Dörner-Naumann, Forsch. in Kommagene 51–53, republishing the text, with improved restorations, showed that it breaks off in the middle of a sentence: see further, below, p. 101.

3 Humann-Puchstein, op. cit. 262 ff. = OGI 383 = IGLS 1, ll. 154 ff. (= Nem. in Epigraphical Notes).