12.410. Honours for Mithridates son of Athenagoras
- Description:
- White marble building block (H. 0.34 × W. 0.47 × D. 0.34) without moulding, but with a recessed edge on all sides.
- Text:
- The inscription is cut on the face, some way down the stone, and runs into the frame on both sides.
- Letters:
- 0.02-0.025
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- incorporated in the Walls, South-east Gate
- Original Location:
- On the tomb from which it was found fallen
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Found during the clearing of the East Gate in 1904 and recorded by Gaudin (108), 'la face engagée dans la maçonnerie'; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin's squeeze by •Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 135, no 66; from the MAMA records by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 462, whence Robert, BCH 107, 1983, 505-506, and McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 510; by published by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, Appendix B.5., cited SEG 49 1999.1417.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin/Reinach papers; publications. This edition Reynolds (1999).
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- 1ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ-
- 2μος ἐτείμησεν
- 3Μιθραδάτην Ἀθη-
- 4ναγόρου ἄνδρα
- 5καλὸν καὶ ἀγα-
- 6θὸν καὶ πάσῃ κοσ-
- 7μηθέντα ἀρετῇ
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- 1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗ
- 2ΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΕΝ
- 3ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΗΝΑΘΗ
- 4ΝΑΓΟΡΟΥΑΝΔΡΑ
- 5ΚΑΛΟΝΚΑΙΑΓΑ
- 6ΘΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΣΗΚΟΣ
- 7ΜΗΘΕΝΤΑΑΡΕΤΗ
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Translation:
The council and the people honoured Mithradates son of Athenagoras, a fine and good man, and adorned with all virtue.
Commentary:
This text was one of a group cut on the family tomb whose elements were incorporated into the walls at the south east gate of the city: 12.410 (= MAMA 462), 13.302 (=474, 475, 476) and 12.409 (Walls 151) The group is published and discussed by Reynolds 1999.
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Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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