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[[Category:Bignor Park]]


'''Modern Publication(s):''' Winbolt no. 5 (''editio princeps''); ''SEG'' IX 891; ''I.Perinthos'' 133.   

'''Brief description:''' Fragment of a relief.


== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' 

'''Object Type:''' Stele

'''Material:''' Marble (Sayar) 

'''Original Location:''' Unknown, but Koehler is said to have removed the inscription from a wall in the late eighteenth century (Vickers).

'''Provenance:''' Perinthos (Sayar).

'''Date:''' 1st – 2nd century AD (Sayar)

'''Dimensions:''' 12.5 in. long, 10.5 in. high (Winbolt).

'''Layout:''' ‘A lady in a riding cloak is riding to the right, approaching a tree round which a snake is coiled… Along the top of the frame is an inscription.’ (Winbolt)

'''Writing:''' Inscribed.

'''Condition:''' ‘there remains about a quarter (the right top) of the whole stone.’ (Winbolt)

'''Decoration:''' See above.  


== Collection ==
'''Location:''' Bignor park: 'built into the walls of a garden house.' (Winbolt)

'''Collector(s):''' Almost certainly brought over to England by Mr. John Hawkins.’ (Winbolt)

'''Date collected:''' Presumably reached Bignor Park when Mr. John Hawkins settled down there in 1806 (Winbolt).

'''Accession or catalogue number:''' Not known.


== Translation ==
Ambeibios Phirmos was alive [in the years…] 

* Vickers originally transcribed the name Ambeirios; Robert offered Ambeibios, on the basis of the Latin name Ambevius, which is followed by Sayar.

== Bibliography ==
J. Robert and L. Robert, ‘Bulletin épigraphique’, ''Revue des Études Grecques'', tome 85, fascicule 406-408, Juillet-décembre 1972: 364-526 (no. 286a). 

M. H. Sayar, ''Perinthos-Herakleia (Marmara Ereğlisi) und Umgebung. Geschichte, Testimonien, griechische und lateinische Inschriften'' (Vienna 1998) no. 133.

C. C. Vermeule, ‘Notes on a new edition of Michaelis: Ancient marbles in Great Britain’, ''AJA'' 59 No. 2 (1955), 129-150 (130 s.v. Bignor Park). 

M.Vickers, ‘Old and new from Perinthus’, ''CR'' 22 (1972) 175 (no. 2). 

S. E. Winbolt, ‘Ancient sculptured marbles at Bignor Park, Sussex’, ''JSH'' 48 No. 2 (1928) 178-182, no. 5.

== Web Links ==
[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=167344&bookid=195&region=5&subregion=12 Greek text, from PHI]


== Image(s) ==
Sayar p. 301 (drawing).

Winbolt, Figure 5, No. 5.