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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.
Part of a plain
Probably
Transcription (Reynolds).
[?The Council and the People honoured] with the finest [honours] Kastor son of Menekrates Iason, son of Kastor son of Menekrates, hero, a young man, fine and good, who lived in accordance with every perfect virtue. Julius [..?..] erected the honour to Kastor his friend.
L. 2 indicates that the honours paid were public and therefore decreed by public bodies—probably, therefore, the city council, people, and/or perhaps gerousia, possibly the youth as well (
The honorand is named with his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, one of whom had the second name Iason—probably his father Menekrates who had the same name as
The family also probably figures in
Found:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967 (
Unpublished.