Description:
Fragment from a white marble statue base (W. 0.47 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.45) with right side and lower edge surviving. Worn at right side.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.04
Date:
second to third centuries A.D.
Findspot:
Martyrion: built into W. wall of narthex. Found again in 1994.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1994)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (Martyrion 1)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0 [·· ? ··]        vacat
1[·· ? ··]μιανοῦ [··]
2[·· ? ··]βουλῆς [··]
3[·· ? ··ἱ]ερέως [··]
4[·· ? ··]        vacat
0[ - - - ]       vacat
1[ - - - ]ΜΙΑΝΟΥ[··]
2[ - - - ]ΒΟΥΛΗΣ[··]
3[ - - - ·]ΕΡΕΩΣ[··]
4[ - - - ]       vacat
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
μιανοῦ
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
βουλῆς
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ερέως
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
</ab>

Translation:

[ . . . of ?]mianos [ . . . of the ] Council [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

The genitive suggests that this may come from the formula describing the epimelete of a statue

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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