Inscription: Monogram: (on finial; on sockets s-y) E D C with prince's coronet above
Inscribed (around base, in Greek) AIOKAHTIANON. TON. METICTON / MO..OC. EMAPXOC. AITYHTOY / TON...P..TATON. AYTOKPATOPA, TON. MOAIOYXON. AAEEANAPEIAC
(trans: Pos(eidi)os, Governor of Egypt, (set up this statue of) Diocletian the most (holy) Emperor, the protector of Alexandria, the most great.)
(On front and back of base) GIR within garter with royal crown: above: 15th or King's / Hussars: below, on ribbon: EMSDORF (this was therefore probably put on between the date of George V's accession to the throne and 1922.)
Marking: Marks (on candelabrum):
[1] Lion passant;
[2] anchor ("mark of the Company" for Birmingham);
[3] h, small Roman letter (Birmingham date letter for 1805–6);
[4] King's head;
[5] M B (maker's mark for Matthew Boulton);
Location of marks:
[1]-[5] on base; on finial; on square section of end of arms (f) and (h); on socket (s) (mark [3] faint, mark [5] semi-struck);
[1]-[4] on sockets (t-v) (one illegible mark on (t), possibly mark [5]);
[1],[3]-[5] on square section end of arm (d);
[3],[5] on square section end of arm (j) (also two illegible marks);
Marks (on sockets):
[6] Leopard's head;
[7] small black letter c (London date letter for 1858–59);
[8] small black letter r (London date letter for 1872–73);
[9] Lion passant;
[10] Queen's head;
[11] I S H crowned (maker's mark for John S. Hunt, ent. 1844);
[12] R G crowned (maker's mark for Robert Garrard, ent. 1821);
Location of marks:
[6],[7],[9]-[11] on sockets (z), (aa-cc);
[6],[8],[9],[10],[12] on socket (dd)
