Martin Ferguson Smith, the main expert on the Inscription, ventures a date for the carving and installation, in a timeline on the creation and rediscovery of Diogenes' work.
He states: "The approximate date of Diogenes’ inscription is indicated by the so-called «Demostheneia inscription», a 117-line text concerning the establishment of a musical festival at Oinoanda by C. Iulius Demosthenes in 125. The close similarity of its lettering to much of that in the philosophical inscription makes it virtually certain that it is the work of one of the stonecutters employed by Diogenes".
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Fifty years of new Epicurean discoveries at Oinoanda, by Martin Ferguson Smith
CRONACHE ERCOLANESI: Bollettino del Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi e del Parco Archeologico di Ercolano, 50/2020, Naples.
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