Description:
White marble statue base without moulding, with lower part still buried(0.57 × 0.86 measurable x 0.47); damaged along the upper edge since the eighteenth century
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025–0.035
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): just north of the South-east gate, north of 12.325 (=MAMA 501), 12.326 (=451)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Copied in 1705 by Sherard (10101, 16) and by Picenini (10102, 27v, and from Tisser 76v) and by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 121); by Deering (7); by Fellows; ? by Bailie; by Waddington; by K&R (R.I.17v, mention); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973.
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh from Sherard papers, CIG 2769; by Fellows, Acct. 325, no. 33, whence CIG p. 1109, ?Bailie, Fasc. ii 36, no. 62; by Waddington, LBW 1608; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 480, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 272
Text constituted from:
Publications; Sherard papers; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
2 τε̣ιμ̣η̣σ̣εν ταῖς καλλ̣ίσ-
3ταις τειμαῖς Διονύ̣-
4σιον Ἀρτεμιδώρο̣υ
5 τοῦ Μενίππου το
6Διονυσίου τοῦ Δη-
7μητρίου ζήσαντα
8 κοσμίως καὶ πρὸς ᾑ [[[·· ? ··]]]
9 ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς
9a       vacat
1·· ? ··]
2[·Τ·Ι···ΕΝΤΑΙΣΚΑΛ·[··
3ΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΔΙΟΝ·
4ΣΙΟΝΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡ·[·]
5ΤΟΥΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΤΟ[·]
6ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥΤΟΥΔΗ
7ΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΖΗΣΑΝΤΑ
8ΚΟΣΜΙΩΣΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΗ[[[ - - - ]]]
9ΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑΑΡΕΤΗΣ
9a       vacat
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
βουλὴ
καὶ
δῆμος
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" dim="top" />
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="2" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="left" />
</rdg>
</app>
τ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
ι
<unclear reason="damage" >
μησ
</unclear>
εν
ταῖς
καλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
ίσ
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="right" />
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ταις
τειμαῖς
Διον
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
σιον
Ἀρτεμιδώρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
υ
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="right" />
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="5" />
τοῦ
Μενίππου
το
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="right" />
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="6" />
Διονυσίου
τοῦ
Δη
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
μητρίου
ζήσαντα
<lb n="8" />
κοσμίως
καὶ
πρὸς
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</del>
<lb n="9" />
ὑπόδειγμα
ἀρετῆς
<lb n="9a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The whole of line 1, the first and last letters of line 2, and the final letters of lines 4 and 5 were read by Sherard and party , Deering and Waddington, but could no longer be read by 1934.

At the end of l.8 an area was thoroughly erased

Translation:

The Council and the People honoured with the finest honours Dionysios son of Artemidoros son of Menippos son of Dionysios the son of Demetrios, who lived a well-ordered life and one with a view to a ?demonstration of virtue.

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

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

Representations:

Deering page 2
 Deering page 2

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