Private honours with artist's signature
created: Transcription from stone (E.R.).
source date: Fourth century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 31, n. 12, fig. 23 (from †Oliverio's papers), and [...], 1962.363, whence [...], 20.743; [...], n. 2, whence [...], 64.2012; [...] 065700. Cf. [...], p. 157 (mention of the find).

Ἐπιγένης Εὐβάτα [...] Δημητρίου ἐποίησε.

Épigénès fils d'Eubatas.

Oeuvre de [...] fils de Démétrios.

Epigenes son of Eubatas.

Made by [...] son of Demetrios.

Epigenes figlio di Eubatas.

Opera di [...] figlio di Demetrios.

[...] mentioned this base without publishing it as 'coming, as it seems, from the Agora'. He was publishing there inscriptions found in 1925 in the Sanctuary of Apollo and his paper belongs to the issue of April 1927, so that he wrote it probably at the end of 1926 or the very beginning of 1927. The present base would have been known to him but not fully studied at the time.

Owing to the similarity of lettering with the epitaph IGCyr025000 the proposed restoration of the names at line 1 seems rather plausible, although other personal names beginning with Εὐβ- do exist.

We have here only at the nominative the name of the man featured in the statue that originally stood on the base. If the honours emanated from the city, this mention would not be missing. It is thus more plausible that a private citizen was responsible for the monument but did not want to let it known (the same at IGCyr065800).

As pointed by Rosamilia, the name of the sculptor's father has no dialectal form and this might be a clue for a foreigner. However, it would be somewhat surprising that his origin would not be mentioned.