Pausanias's Description of Greece, Vol. 4 (Frazer)

4. In 1880, Mr. Homolle found in Delos a statue with the following inscription:

Gaius Ofellius Ferus, son of Marcus, (dedicated) to Apollo by the Italians, on account of his justness and kindness to themselves. Dionysius son of Timarchides, and Timarchides son of Polycles, both of them Athenians, made (the statue).

The statue in question, a fair specimen of late Greek work, occupied one of the niches in the market-place, which was frequented, if not built, by the Italian merchants resident in Delos. It cannot have been made earlier than 190 B.C., the date of the first appearance of the Romans in Delos, and was likely made some time later. On the other hand, it cannot be later than 90 B.C., the date of the outbreak of the Social War in Italy, after which the name "Italians" would not have been used. Mr. Homolle believes the statue may belong to the end of the second century B.C. The paleographical character of the inscription agrees with this date, and it is confirmed by the fact that the market-place appears to have been built not long before 130 B.C. See Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (Bulletin of Hellenic Correspondence), 5 (1881), p. 390 sqq.; Hermes, 19 (1884), p. 305; Loewy, Inschriften griechischer Bildhauer (Inscriptions of Greek Sculptors), No. 242; W. Gurlitt, Ueber Pausanias (On Pausanias), p. 362.

5. In his excavations on the site of the temple of Cranaean Athena near Elatea, Mr. Paris discovered a fragment of a pedestal bearing an inscription in letters of the second century B.C.: ΠΟΛΥΚΛΗΣΤΙΝ, which may conjecturally be restored as: Polycles, son of Timarchides (made the statue).

6. In December 1894, the base of a statue was found near the southwest corner of the Dionysiac theatre at Athens. It bears the following inscription in letters that are certainly not earlier than the middle of the second century B.C. and may be as late as the time of Sulla (d. 78 B.C.):

Timarchides the younger, son of Polycles and of the township of Thoricus, made (the statue).

This proves that there were two contemporary sculptors each called Timarchides, both with fathers named Polycles. Thus, we identify two men named Polycles and two named Timarchides, living in the second half of the second century B.C. or the early first century B.C. See Mittheilungen des archäologischen Instituts in Athen (Communications of the Archaeological Institute in Athens), 20 (1895), p. 216.

7. On a large pedestal at Lindus in Rhodes there is a mutilated inscription, which may perhaps be restored thus: