1.161. Ηonours for anonymous, who has established a foundation

Description:: Upper part of a white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels on at least two sides (W. 0.55 × W. 0.54 × D. 0.36), damaged above and broken away below.
Text:: Inscribed on the face (W. 0.35 x H. 0.42), which is very weathered.
Letters:: 0.02; ligatures: ΝΤ, l.2; ΤΗ l. 3; ΜΕ l.10; ΤΗΝ l.12; ΝΗ l.12. Apex on initial A, l.2.
Date:: Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Temple/Church: probably reused in the south side of the Byzantine bema-rail
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
History of discovery:: Recorded by Kubitschek (KIII.21, Abklatsch 68); squeezed by Gaudin (48); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (SBI 104)
Bibliography:: Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 208, no. 86, whence Laum, no. 115, and discussed by L. Robert, Études Anatoliennes 317; by Cormack, from the MAMA records and from Kubitschek, MAMA 8, no. 523, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 362
Text constituted from:: publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).

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0a[(e.g.) πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει]-

1το̣υρ̣γ̣ί̣α̣ς̣ [·· ? ·· ?ἐκτελέ]-

2 σαντ̣ος stop ἀναθ[έντος]

3 δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατί[στῃ]

4β̣ουλ̣ῇ καὶ τῷ σ̣[ε]-

5μνοτάτῳ̣ καὶ ἀρχ[αι]-

6οτάτῳ̣ σ̣υνεδρίῳ

7 τῶν χ̣ρυσοφόρων

8ν̣ε̣ο̣π̣οιῶν εἰς αἰω-

9νί̣ους κλή̣ρ̣ους ἀρ-

10γύριον γεν̣όμενον

11 καὶ αὐτὸν βουλευ-

12τήν stop ἐλεωνήσαντα

13 καὶ νε̣οπυήσαντα

14φιλοτείμ̣ως star καὶ

15[παραφυλ]ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣τ̣α̣

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3[··[·ΑΙΤΗΚΡΑΤΙ[···]

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5ΜΝΟΤΑΤ·ΚΑΙΑΡΧ[··]

6ΟΤΑΤ··ΥΝΕΔΡΙΩ

7ΤΩΝ·ΡΥΣΟΦΟΡΩΝ

8····ΟΙΩΝΕΙΣΑΙΩ

9Ν·ΟΥΣΚΛ··ΟΥΣΑΡ

10ΓΥΡΙΟΝΓΕ·ΟΜΕΝΟΝ

11ΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΝΒΟΥΛΕΥ

12ΤΗΝ stop ΕΛΕΩΝΗΣΑΝΤΑ

13ΚΑΙΝ·ΟΠΥΗΣΑΝΤΑ

14ΦΙΛΟΤΕΙ·ΩΣ star ΚΑΙ

15[·······]······

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Apparatus

The letters highlighted were seen by earlier readers, but not by the NYU expedition.

ll.1-3 [πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει]/ τουργίας [ἐκτελέ]/σαντος ἀναθ[έντος]/ δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατίστῃ/ βούλῃ MAMA: the highlighted letters were read from K&R.

l. 2, σαντος ἀναθ[έντος] K&R; [ . . . .]Ο̣ΣΑΝΤΑΦ[ . . . . .] Reinach. We read Σ stop ΑΝ[ l.15 [ . . . . . [ΑΡΞΑΝΤA Reinach; [παραφυλ]ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣τ̣α̣ MAMA; [παραφυ]λ̣ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣[τα] MB [[who?]]

Translation:

... who had] filled [?all magistracies and] liturgies and havng dedicated money to the most powerful council and the most holy and ancient commission of the gold-wearing neopoioi (?temple-builders) with a view to perpetual distributions by lot, he himself having been, with distinction, a councillor, ?a provider of oil, a neopoios; and having ?guarded [...