IG VII 113: Statue of Asklepias.
Modern Publication(s): CIG 1064; Mus. Worsl., Cl. III, no. 6 (p. 78b); Kaibel, Epigrammata graeca 870; Michaelis no. 26 (p. 231); IG VII 113.
Brief description: Statue with inscribed base
Attributes
Inscription Type: Epigram: ‘the sixth line is a heptameter.’ (Michaelis)
Object Type: Statue with its base
Material:
Original Location:
Provenance: ‘The little statue…was dug out of some ruins in the city of Megara.’ (Worsley)
Date: Around the third century AD, on the basis of its letterforms (Worsley).
Dimensions:
Layout: Seven lines of text inscribed on the statue base.
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: 'The statue was ‘found without head and arms.’ (Worsley)
Decoration:
Collection
Location: Brocklesby Park: ‘most of the Yarborough and Worlsey marbles seem to be in the sculpture Gallery behind the house.’ (Vermeule 1955 p. 131)
Collector(s): Initially collected by Sir Richard Worsley at his house at Appuldurcombe; Worsley’s collection then passed on to the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park (see Michaelis pp. 115-117).
Date collected: Sir Richard Worsley arrived at Athens on May 9th 1785 and continued ‘on a tour in Greece, visiting Eleusis, Megara (where he obtained for a small sum the state of Asclepias, priestess of Artemis Orthosia)… On the sale of the Appuldurcomb[e] property the collection formed by Worsley was removed to the Earl of Yarborough’s seat, Brocklesby Park…’ (Lee pp. 36-37)
Accession or catalogue number: Not known
Translation
Around all the walls of the city I stand in awe of the maiden daughter of Leto, the arrow-pourer, Artemis Orthosia. I am the priestess, Asklepias, born from the line of Euktimenos son of Asklepiades, my father [and], on my mother’s side, from most-reverend Neikephoris’ noble line. It was my good parents who gifted me as priestess to this goddess while the council and the people decreed this for me.
Bibliography
J. Dallaway, Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or Comparative Remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, & Painting, Chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford (London 1800) p. 360 no. 4.
G. Kaibel, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus conlecta (Berlin 1878) no. 870.
S. Lee, Dictionary of National Biography vol. 63 Wordsworth- Zuylestein (London 1900) s.v. Sir Richard Worsley (pp. 36-37).
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge 1882) no. 26 (p. 231).
E. Q. Visconti, Monumenti gabini della Villa Pinciana (Milan 1835) p. 113.
C. C. Vermeule, ‘Notes on a new edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain’, AJA 59 No. 2 (1955), 129-150 (p. 130 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain part two’, AJA 60 no. 4 (1956) 321-350 (pp. 324-325 s.v. Brocklesby Park).
R. Worsley, Museum Worsleyanum (London 1824) Class III, no. 6 (p. 78b); pp. 79-82.
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Worsley, Class III, no. 6 (p. 78b)
