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The sculptor's signature, written in Greek, can be seen on the base (left) of this marble statue. The text reads "Antoninus Alexandreus, son of Antiochos, made this [statue] by himself". The statue may be of Apollo or a muse. The name Antoninus Alexandreus appears in another inscription found in Jerash which can be dated back to the last two decades of the 2nd century CE. The Greek name Alexandreus and his father Antiochos, as well as the technique of the statue, might indicate that he was a Greek citizen who lived in the Province of Arabia. His father, or one of his ancestors, had been a freedman of a Roman named Antoninus because freedmen assumed the family name of their former masters. Maybe he was a freedman of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius or Commodus himself. Roman period, 75-100 CE. From Jerash (Gerasa), Jordan. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).
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