SEG IX 891: Fragment of a relief

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

Greek text, from PHI

Image(s)

Winbolt, Figure 5, No. 5.

Sayar p. 301 (drawing).