Collection: Athens, Acropolis Museum
Title: Telesinos Column
Context: From Athens, Acropolis
Findspot: Found at Athens, Acropolis, built into the Northeast corner of the North wall of the Acropolis
Summary: Inscribed column for votive offering
Object Function: Votive
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Statue base, inscribed
Category: Separated fragments
Style: Late Archaic
Technique: Incised
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 500 BC
Dimensions: H. 1.17 m
Scale: Large
Region: Attica
Period: Late Archaic

Form & Style: This unfluted column, tapering down, supports a round abacus.

Date Description: The column is dated on the basis of the letter forms.

Condition: Intact

Condition Description: Only the shaft is preserved and chipped slightly at the top. A flat bronze base of a statue (a horse, according to Brouskari) remains at the top).

Material Description: Pentelic, according to Brouskari

Inscription:

*F*A*R*Q*E*N*E *E*N* *A*K*R*O*P*O*L*E*I *T*E*L*E*S**I*N*O*S *A*G*A*L*M'*A*N*E*Q*E*K*E*N*K*E*T*I*O*S *H*O*I *X*A*I*R*O*S*A *D*I*D*O*I*E*S *A*L*O *A*N*A*Q*E*N*A*I.

Brouskari translated this inscription as follows: Maiden [Athena], Telesinos from the deme of Ketios dedicated this statue to you on the Acropolis. Now do something to cause him to dedicate another."

Sources Used: Brouskari 1974, 47, fig. 85

Other Bibliography: Raubitschek 1949, 42 no. 40