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'''Modern Publication(s):''' ''IK Ephesos'' 2269A; McCabe, ''Ephesos'' 2335; Michaelis p. 424 no. 6.

'''Brief description:''' Funerary ''stele'' for Herodotos.


== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' Funerary

'''Object Type:''' ''stele''

'''Material:''' coarse marble (Michaelis)

'''Original Location:''' Unknown

'''Provenance:''' 'From the mouth of the aqueduct at Ephesos' (Michaelis)

'''Date:''' 1st c. BC?

'''Dimensions:''' H. 0.66 L. 0.31

'''Layout:''' The inscription is below the cornice, above the relief.

'''Writing:''' Inscribed

'''Condition:''' Broken into two pieces through the relief.

'''Decoration:''' 'The slab is furnished at the top with a cornice, only a little decorated... In the relief stands Herodotos, apparently beardless, in cloak, holding out r. hand to an unveiled women sitting to the r. On the l. behind Herodotos the faithful nurse, who has dedicated the sepulchral monument to her charge, stands in full face, veiled, head supported on l. hand.' (Michaelis)


== Collection ==
'''Location:''' National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)

'''Collector:''' 'Presented by E. Bibby, Esq.' (Michaelis)

'''Date collected:''' Presented to Liverpool Museum in 1875

'''Accession or catalogue number:''' National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 7.7.75.1


== Translation ==
'Herodotos Skyllionos. His nurse set this up.'

== Bibliography ==

C. T. Gatty, ''Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities in the Mayer Museum'' (Liverpool, 1883), no. 2  (= ''Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire'' 34 (1883) 39-66, no. 2).

A. Michaelis, ''Ancient Marbles in Great Britain'' (Cambridge, 1882), 424, no. 6

== Web Links ==
[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=250064&bookid=490&region=8&subregion=29 Greek text, from PHI]

== Image(s) ==

Courtesy National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

[[File:Herodotos2.jpg]]