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Object Type
Museum number: 1859,1129.64
Description: A slab of white marble, the top and right hand bottom corner broken away with a fifty five line inscription, in Greek. There are twelve lines missing. The subject of the inscription is probably a copy of a joint decree issued by the Asiatic Greeks, in which they welcomed or honoured Gaius Caesar, the adopted son of the emperor Augustus, and which appropriately commenced by praising the emperor who sent him.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Halicarnassus, From a Turkish house near the Acropolis of Salmakis
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 113.03 centimetres; Thickness: 15.24 centimetres; Width: 53.34 centimetres
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Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Named in inscription: Augustus (Octavian); Named in inscription: Gaius Caesar
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1859,1129.64

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