CIMRM 33 - Basalt slab of Antiochus of Commagene, Samosata, Syria.

There are several basalt stelae of Antiochus I of Commagene greeting Heracles in the British Museum, one of which (GR 1927, 12-14.1) was recently the object of an attempted seizure by the Turkish government.¹ This is a different item. the images are from the JHS publication, which gives more of the Greek text than the CIMRM.

This may be British Museum acquisition no: 1914,0214.60, which is online²:

Description: Carved black basalt stela; part of a larger stela depicting the Commagenian ruler Antiochos I on the left and Herakles on the right; inscription on the back; incomplete.
Dimensions:
Height: 93 centimetres
Width: 42 centimetres
Thickness: 28 centimetres
Height: 106 centimetres (with stone plinth)

Condition: Incomplete
Curator's comments: Herakles previously identified as Apollo.
Acquisition date: 1914
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch
Acquisition notes: Part of collection bequeathed by Lynch, and handled by his solicitors Trower, Still, Parkin & Keeling (ME Corres, January 1914); collection briefly itemised and reported to Trustees by Budge, 7 January 1914 (Reports to Trustees), this item being described as "Figure of Apollo, found at Samosata". Later transferred to G&R where re-registered as 1914-2-14,1.

CIMRM entry

SAMOSATA
33.
Black basalt tablet (H. 0.787 Br. 0.35 D. 0.225), found on the banks. of the Euphrates near Samosate. London, Br. Mus.
Yorke-Hogarth in JHS XVIII, 1898, 312 No. 14³; Dittenberger, OGIS No. 404; Marshall, Ancient Greek Inscr. Br. Mus., IV (2), 182 No. 1048; Jalabert-Mouterde, Inscr. Syrie, 58f No. 52 from which our text.
Remnants of a relief, on which Apollo with aureole, holding out his hand to Antiochus I of Commagene. At the bottom an inscription. After a short introduction, the tendency of which is similar to that of the large inscription of Nemrud-Dagh, there are the following lines: