I. In 1890 Puchstein published in Humann-Puchstein, Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien, 368 ff., a sculptured and inscribed stele from Selik, a village nine and a half kms. north of Samsat (Samosata), bearing on the front face a relief representing Heracles greeting King Antiochus I of Commagene, an almost exact copy of one of the Nemrud-Daǧ reliefs. The stele has been used as an oil-press, and the inscribed surface of the back has been entirely removed for much of its extent. The text of the inscription, in which Antiochus establishes various cult-practices connected with himself, is not complete in itself, but contains the last forty-seven lines of a document which must have begun on another stele, possibly that of which there has been published a fragment, found at Palas, thirty kms. south-west of Selik.