12.28. Posthumous honours for Tiberius Claudius Ktesias, who established a foundation

Description:: White marble block, with moulding (later cut away for re-use) below, perhaps cut away to the left (W. 0.90 × H. 1.32 x depth not measurable).
Text:: The text is inscribed on the face and must have begun on an adjacent block, or on a section of this block which has been cut away.
Letters:: 0.03-0.035; small circle for abbreviations.
Date:: Second half of the second century, perhaps already into the third century, on the basis of the β (lettering).
Findspot:: Walls, North: re-used in the wall, north of the Stadium, just west of 12.29 (=MAMA 492).
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:: Recorded by Falkener; by Waddington; by K&R (no notebook reference); by Gaudin (101); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:: Published by Henzen, from Falkener, Ann. d. Inst. 23, 1852, 132-133, no. 8; by Waddington, LBW 1603, whence Ziebarth, ZVRW 16, 1903, 292, no. 63, Laum, no. 110; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 131-132, no. 60; published by Cormack from the MAMA records and from Kubitschek and Reichel, MAMA 8, no. 497, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 298.
Text constituted from:: Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).

1[ἡ βουλὴ ?καὶ ὁ δῆμος κ]α̣ὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν star

2[·· c. 5 ·· ?ἀναστάσεσιν ἀ]νδριάντων Τιβ(έριον) Κλ(αύδιον) Κτησίαν

3[καὶ ·· c. 14 ··]ίαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ

4Τιβ(έριον) Κλ(αύδιον) [·· c. 8 ·· τὸν] υἱὸν αὐτῶν διὰ τὴν τοῦ βί-

5[ου ·· c. 13 ·· σεμν]ότητα ἀναθέντας εἰς δια-

6[νομὰς ?αἰωνίους καὶ σ]τεφανώσεις τῇ τε Βουλῇ

7[καὶ ·· c. 11 ·· καὶ ταῖ]ς Φυλαῖς καὶ Προκλήροις

8[? τὸν κατ' ἔτος τόκον ? ἀ]πὸ (δηνάρια) μυρίων χειλίων vv. star

8a vacat

1[···················]·ΙΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ star

2[·················]ΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΩΝΤΙΒΚΛΚΤΗΣΙΑΝ

3[·················]ΙΑΝΤΗΝΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙ

4ΤΙΒΚΛ[···········]ΥΙΟΝΑΥΤΩΝΔΙΑΤΗΝΤΟΥΒΙ

5[·· ·················]ΟΤΗΤΑΑΝΑΘΕΝΤΑΣΕΙΣΔΙΑ

6[·················]ΤΕΦΑΝΩΣΕΙΣΤΗΤΕΒΟΥΛΗ

7[··· ·················]ΣΦΥΛΑΙΣΚΑΙΠΡΟΚΛΗΡΟΙΣ

8[····················]ΠΟ denarius ΜΥΡΙΩΝΧΕΙΛΙΩΝ star

8a vacat

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ἡ

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νδριάντων

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Τιβ

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Apparatus

l. 2, [ἀναστάσεσιν ἀ]νδριάντων Cormack.

l. 4, αὐτοῦ Cormack; but αὐτῶν is clear in the MAMA photograph.

l. 7, [καὶ τῷ δήμῳ καὶ ταῖ]ς Cormack (but the φυλαί and the δῆμος are surely one and the same).

Translation:

[The Council ?and the People] and the Gerousia honoured [?with the erection] of statues Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Ktesias [·· ? ·· and ·· ? ··]ia his wife and [Tib(erius) Cl(audius)] their son, on account of their lives [of ?virtue and] dignity, since they dedicated for [perpetual] distributions and crownings both to the Council [and] to the Tribes and ?those who drew lots first [? the annual interest] on 11,000 denarii.