Matronianus, Comes Isauriae

An Inscription from the Sea Wall of Anemurium

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ID3937154
AuthorsElisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum (corresponding author)
Year1972
Volume26
Issue2
Pages183
Publication date1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1087715
OpenAlexW2316974636
LanguageEN
Citations received6

IN THE SPRING of 1968 heavy seas exposed a portion of the sea wall at Anemurium almost down to what might be its Hellenistic level. Further excavation by Professor Leonard Smith in the summer of 19681 revealed an inscribed block no longer firmly embedded in the wall that might have been placed about 1.50 m. above the finely cut blocks forming the lowest courses of the wall. The block is of local limestone, 2.37 m. long, 0.26 m. high, and 0.66 m. thick, and has rather uneven edges and a very worn surface. In 1969, we placed it in an E-W direction to facilitate reading (see Fig. 1, which also shows the stretch of the sea wall where the block came to light).2 On closer examination it was found that the present inscription is cut over an erased earlier one,3 the traces of which make the reading of the later text difficult. Squeezes were of no great help because of the poor quality of the cutting; but a few sessions in different lights in front of the stone, along with the study of the excellent detailed photographs taken by Mrs G. Fittschen in the summer of 1970 (Figs. 2-5), produced the following text,4 which leaves no doubt that the later inscription belongs to the sea wall where the block was found

Art · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies

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