Philopappos Monument

The Philopappos stands as a monument on the grave Muse hill southwest of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built by the Athenians 114-119 AD in honor of Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus, an exiled prince of Commagene and benefactor of the city.

The construction of Pentelic marble originally had a floor area of ​​about 9 m × 9 m, but he caved to the north facade. In the 15th century it seems to have stood still largely undamaged, as Cyriacus of Ancona, who traveled 1412-1445 Greece, handed his inscriptions. The preserved part of the monument shows the headless seated statues of Philopappus ( in the middle) and his ancestors Antiochus IV (left), including a relief depicting a triumphal procession.