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Modern Description: Philopappous Monument: a burial monument of Gaius Julius Antiochus Philopappos built in 114-116 AD and located on the top of the Mouseion hill. It is a two-storey structure facing Acropolis. On the lower frieze, Philopappos is depicted on a chariot while on the upper zone three niches are decorated with the statues of Philopappos (central), of Antiochus (on the left) and of Seleucus Nicator (on the right). The inscriptions: C. ∙ Iulius C. f. Fab(ia) ∙ Antiochus ∙ Philopappus ∙ cos., frater ∙ Arvalis ∙ allectus ∙ inter praetorios ∙ ab ∙ Imp(eratore) ∙ Caesare Nerva ∙ Traiano ∙ Optumo ∙ Augusto ∙ Germanico ∙ Dacico.
βασιλεὺς Ἀντίοχος Φιλόπαππος βασιλέως Ἐπιφάνους τοῦ Ἀντιόχου.
βασιλεὺς Ἀντίοχος βασιλέως Ἀντιόχου.
[Φιλό]παππος Ἐπιφάνους Βησαιεύς.
βασιλεὺς Σέλευκος Ἀντιόχου Νικάτωρ.
[Judith Binder: Philopappos: Grave mon.,114-116 A.D., on the summit of Mouseion Hill: — CIL_III 552, IG II² 3451; a Syrian man, Paus. 1.25.8; Travlos, J. 1971, 462-465, figs. 233, 585-587; Diana E. E. Kleiner, The Monument of Philopappos in Athens, Rome, 1983; SEG 48 (1998) nos. 236, 2030; [probably paid for privately but a state burial monument in the sense that permission for burial inside the City Wall must have been granted by the State]]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philopappos_Monument
Wikidata ID: Q1760491
Trismegistos Geo: 364

Info: A.E.

(Aspa Efstathiou, ToposText volunteer)

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