Inscribed Base of a Statue from Palaepaphos

Server Costs Fundraiser 2024

Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
$3926 / $18000

Illustration

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
by
published on 02 June 2018
Subscribe to author
Inscribed Base of a Statue from Palaepaphos Download Full Size Image

There are two lines of inscription on this marble stone, which read:
"Nikokles, King of Paphos, Wanassa Priest
King, Son of Timarkhos, erected for goddess".
Early Hellenistic Period, end of the 4th century BCE. From Palaepaphos (Kouklia), in modern-day Cyprus. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

Remove Ads
Advertisement
Subscribe to this author

About the Author

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

Cite This Work

APA Style

Amin, O. S. M. (2018, June 02). Inscribed Base of a Statue from Palaepaphos. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8769/inscribed-base-of-a-statue-from-palaepaphos/

Chicago Style

Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Inscribed Base of a Statue from Palaepaphos." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified June 02, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8769/inscribed-base-of-a-statue-from-palaepaphos/.

MLA Style

Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Inscribed Base of a Statue from Palaepaphos." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 02 Jun 2018. Web. 27 Jul 2024.

Membership