12.2. Honours for an anonymous contest-president
- Description:
- White marble statue base shaft fragment (H. 0.86 x W. 0.17 x at least D. 0.15; the right side apparently survived (K&R) but the alignment on the squeeze and the drawing suggests that the right ends of the lines are not all complete
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face
- Letters:
- letters 0.021 (Reinach)
- Date:
- First century A.D. (content)
- Findspot:
- Walls, North: found by the north wall of the Stadium
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1904)
- History of discovery:
- A fragment copied by Kubitschek, but not published (K III.11a, Ablatsch 3); recorded by Gaudin (no number given).
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 106, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 352 ; by Roueché, PPA 49
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; Gaudin squeeze; Kubitschek notebook This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· c. 20 ··]Λ̣Ν̣
- 3[·· c. 18 ··] ΕΤΕ[·]
- 4[·· c. 14 ··ντ]α καὶ ἀρχ̣-
- 5[?ιερατεύσαντα ] τῶν Σεβ̣-
- 6[αστῶν ·· c. 6 ·· καὶ ἀ]γωνοθε -
- 7[τήσαντα ?τοὺς τῶ]ν Σεβα-
- 8[στῶν ἀγῶνας ·· c. 5 ·· γ]ενόμε -
- 9[νον ·· c. 11 ··] ΚΑ stop ἀγορα
- 10[νομήσαντα ?πολυδαπά]νως καὶ̣
- 11 [·· c. 15 ·· κ]αιροῖς vac.
- 12[·· c. 17 ··] ΑΙΔΕΙ ?vac.
- 13[·· ? ··] Ε̣[·· ? ··]
- 14[·· ? ··
- 1[ - - - ]
- 2[····················]··
- 3[··················]ΕΤΕ[·]
- 4[················]ΑΚΑΙΑΡ·
- 5[············]ΤΩΝΣΕ·
- 6[····· ··········]ΓΩΝΟΘΕ
- 7[·············]ΝΣΕΒΑ
- 8[·········· ······]ΕΝΟΜΕ
- 9[··· ···········]ΚΑ stop ΑΓΟΡΑ
- 10[·················]ΝΩΣΚΑ·
- 11[················]ΑΙΡΟΙΣ
- 12[·················]ΑΙΔΕΙ
- 13[ - - - ]·[ - - - ]
- 14[·· ? ··
Apparatus
l. 1, Only in K.
l.3, at end: ΑΡ K, R; but traces of Χ on squeeze.
l.4, at end: ΣΕ, K, R; but traces of Β on squeeze.
l.9, at end: ΚΑ, K, R; but traces of Ι̣ on squeeze.
l. 11, ΑΙΛΕΤ K.
l. 12, Only K shows traces of upper parts of letters; Ε might be Σ or Γ; the following traces are of slanting serifs.
Translation:
[e.g. The Council, the People and the Gerousia honoured ?] who has been[...] and has been high-priest [...]of the Augusti [.. , and] contest-organizer [of the contests of] the Augusti, and [...] and [...] and has been agoranomos [ ?lavishly ... ?in difficult] times, and [...]
Commentary:
There is no indication of date for this inscription, within the imperial period, and the restorations are very uncertain; but the apparent similarities of expression make it seem likely to be contemporary with 11.5, and so of the first century A.D.
The reference to 'times' (l.9) suggests activities in times of difficulty, as, in 12.103 and 12.701; but the difficulties here might be no more than a corn shortage.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, 11
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