Description of Monument
A white marble
statue base shaft with moulded panels (0.99 x 0.40 x 0.37), chipped on
all edges; there is a hole on the top for the attachment of a crowning feature
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face. L.1 is inscribed on the upper
moulding, but was not seen by earlier copyists; the text must have begun on the crowning
feature.
Letters
Standard second-/third-century forms, 0.02. Apices: on Η, l.9.
Edition
τὸν
δεῖνα
στ
εφανωθέντα
παίδων
στάδι
ον
τῷ
ἐπιτελε
σθέντι
ἀγῶνι
τῆς
πεντε
καιδεκάτης
τετραετηρίδος
Ἀφρoδεισιήων
Φιλημονιήων
ἀγωνοθετούν
των
τῶν
περὶ
Ἰούλιον
Αὐρήλι
ον
Ζήλου
ἀρχι
ερέως
υἱὸν
Χα
ρίδημον
νεο
ποιῶν
τὴν
δὲ
ἀ
νάστασιν
τοῦ
ἀνδριάντος
ποιησαμένου
Ἰουλίου
Κρατε
ρου
τοῦ
πατρὸς
αὐτοῦ
Apparatus
Line 17: the letter which earlier copyists read but we did not has been highlighted.
Translation
[- -], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the fifteenth four-year
occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by
Julius Aurelius Charidemos, son of Zelos, high-priest. Julius Krateros, his father, undertook
the erection of the statue.
Commentary
See bibliography.
Locations
City, Village: in the ruins of a house north east of
the Tetrapylon, slightly west of the Water Channel area
Unknown
Museum
Text Constituted From
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)
History of Recording
Recorded by H. P. Borrell, and perhaps also by Bailie; by Le Bas; by the NYU expedition in
1976 (excavation inventory no. 76.84, SBI 63).
Bibliography
Published, from Borrell's copy and possibly one of his own, by Bailie, no.
49; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW
596, whence Liermann, Analecta
25. Published by Roueché, PPA
83.