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Inscription Detail
ID: TEEEETND50 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2011

Inscription Detail

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View looking up at the long Greek inscription of Antiochus and above it is the stela of Mithridates I and Hercules.

The inscription describes how Antiochus built the sanctuary at Arsameia in honor of his father Mithridates I, and others.

For a contextual view of the inscription Click Here.

Arsameia was the capital of the kingdom of Commagene. It was founded in the first century B.C.