A group of marble statues, all bearing the dedication of Klaudios Peis\u014dn, were found together in 1981 in the South Baths of Perge. They appear datable to the principate of Antoninus Pius, when the baths were enlarged. To date, however, these statues have not been examined as a group, and little attention has been paid to the role of their donor. The name Klaudios Peis\u014dn indicates membership in a prominent family of Sagalassos; his generosity to another city suggests that this man owned property near or conducted business in Perge. His euergetism here is more modest than that of Perge’s own great families, but it shows Peis\u014dn’s desire to win favor with the people and local officials. Technical evidence indicates that at least six of the statues were not new when Peis\u014dn donated them; some of them had been recut to receive his dedicatory inscription. They were, however, carefully chosen by someone, both for their connections with local cult and for their aesthetic appeal. Peis\u014dn’s euergetism consisted in preserving and reinstalling a group of statues from some other venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A group of marble statues, all bearing the dedication of Klaudios Peis\u014dn, were found together in 1981 in the South Baths of Perge. They appear datable to the principate of Antoninus Pius, when the baths were enlarged. To date, however, these statues have not been examined as a group, and little attention has been paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[904],"tags":[9,28,29],"issues":[649],"region":[805],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-sculpture","tag-arthistory","tag-romanperiod","issues-649","region-turkey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n