13.301. Funerary honours for Neaira and Metrodoros
- Description:
- A plain white marble block (H. 2.06 × W. 0.59 × depth not measurable).
- Text:
- Both texts inscribed on the face, which is cracked, i. to the left, ii. to the right. The block is complete above, though chipped; i. must therefore have begun on an upper block.
- Letters:
- i. 0.03-0.035 ii. 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- i. first half of first century A.D.; ii. second half of first century A.D.
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east Gate:element of the tomb incorporated in the gate.
- Original Location:
- Necropolis, South-east
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Sherard in 1716 (10101 121-2); by Wood (14, f47); by Deering (1v, nos 4 and 5); by Fellows; by Bailie (see Researches, 51-2, 83-4); by Choisy; by Loew; by Waddington; mentioned by K&R (RI.14v);recorded by Gaudin (154, 147); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- a: Published published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2816 and 2779; by Fellows, Acct. 323-324, no. 31 and 30, whence CIG p. 1114, Bailie, Fasc. ii 24-25 and 283, no. 51.i and h. Mentioned by Franz, from Loew, Ann. d. Inst. 19, 1847, 114-115, nos. a.1 and a.6; Published by •Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 125-127, nos. 67, 65; from the MAMA records, by •Cormack, MAMA 473, 472 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 309, 305 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; Wood; Deering; Gaudin. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- i
- 0 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη-
- 1 σεν κ̣αὶ μετη̣λ̣λακχ̣υ̣[ῖαν]
- 2 ταῖς ἀξίαις καὶ πρεπού-
- 3σαις τειμαῖς Νέαιραν Με-
- 4νεκλέους Ἀμμίαν γυναῖ
- 5κα γενομένην Μητροδώ-
- 6ρου τοῦ Μητροδώρου Δημη-
- 7τρίου ζήσασαν κοσμίως
- 8 καὶ σωφρόνως vac.
- 8a vacat
- ii
- 1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν
- 2 καὶ μετηλλαχχότα (sic) Μητρόδωρον
- 3 Μητροδώρου Δημήτριον ζήσαν-
- 4τα κοσμίως ἄνδρα περὶ τὰ κοινὰ τῆς
- 5 πόλεως φιλότειμον ἔν τε ἀρχαῖς
- 6 καὶ ὑποσχέσεσιν καὶ ἐργεπιστασίαις
- 7 καὶ ταῖς λοιπαῖς εἰς τὴν πατρίδα scroll
- 8 ὑπηρεσίαις πρόθυμον γενόμενον
- 8a vacat
- i
- 0ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗ
- 1ΣΕΝ·ΑΙΜΕΤ··ΛΑΚ··[···]
- 2ΤΑΙΣΑΞΙΑΙΣΚΑΙΠΡΕΠΟΥ
- 3ΣΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΝΕΑΙΡΑΝΜΕ
- 4ΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣΑΜΜΙΑΝΓΥΝΑΙ
- 5ΚΑΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΝΜΗΤΡΟΔΩ
- 6ΡΟΥΤΟΥΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΥΔΗΜΗ
- 7ΤΡΙΟΥΖΗΣΑΣΑΝΚΟΣΜΙΩΣ
- 8ΚΑΙΣΩΦΡΟΝΩΣ
- 8a vacat
- ii
- 1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΕΝ
- 2ΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΧΟΤΑ(sic)ΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΝ
- 3ΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΥΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΝΖΗΣΑΝ
- 4ΤΑΚΟΣΜΙΩΣΑΝΔΡΑΠΕΡΙΤΑΚΟΙΝΑΤΗΣ
- 5ΠΟΛΕΩΣΦΙΛΟΤΕΙΜΟΝΕΝΤΕΑΡΧΑΙΣ
- 6ΚΑΙΥΠΟΣΧΕΣΕΣΙΝΚΑΙΕΡΓΕΠΙΣΤΑΣΙΑΙΣ
- 7ΚΑΙΤΑΙΣΛΟΙΠΑΙΣΕΙΣΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ scroll
- 8ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΙΣΠΡΟΘΥΜΟΝΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΝ
- 8a vacat
Apparatus
i: Wood could not read lines 1 and 2
ii. l. 7, episilon corrected from sigma.
Translation:
i. [The Council and the People honoured] also after her death with appropriate and becoming honours Neaira Ammia, daughter of Menekles, who was the wife of Metrodoros Demetrios son of Metrodoros, who lived in a well-ordered and discreet manner.
ii. The Council and the People honoured also after his death Metrodoros Demetrios son of Metrodoros who lived with due order, ambitious to serve the common good of the city and zealous as a magistrate, in the superintendency of public building and in other services for the city.
Commentary:
These texts are in different hands - i. resembles 12.609 (=MAMA 478) - but are inscribed on a single block, part of the tomb whose elements were incorporated in the South-east gate, and which include 13.302 (=ΜΑΜΑ 474), and 12.411 (=MAMA 548): see Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334.
Photographs:
- i (1973)
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- ii (1973)
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Representations:
- i: Wood notebook 14, page 47
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- i and ii: Deering notebook, 1v
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- ii: Gaudin squeeze
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