Description:
Damaged rectangular white marble base, with holes for the feet of a statue on top (W. 0.38 × H. 0.18 × D. 0.41).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Temple/Church
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1965)
History of discovery:
Found by the NYU expedition (62.406)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ··]Ι̣Η̣[·· ? ··]
2[··] Μολ̣οσσ̣ο̣- [·· ? ··]-
3 κι̣ανοῦ καὶ ἐγ̣γ̣[?ονος]
4 vac. φ̣ι̣λ̣όθε̣ο̣ς̣ vac. arabesque
1[ - - - ]··[ - - - ]
2[··]ΜΟ·ΟΣ··-[ - - - ]
3Κ·ΑΝΟΥΚΑΙΕ··[····]
4   ···ΟΘ···    arabesque
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιη
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
Μο
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
οσ
<unclear reason="damage" >
σο
</unclear>
-
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
κ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ανοῦ
καὶ
<unclear reason="damage" >
γγ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ονος
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
φιλ
</unclear>
όθ
<unclear reason="damage" >
εος
</unclear>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<g type="arabesque" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, the underdotted letters are very incomplete

l. 3, or ΚΑΙΕΡΜ

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Molossos [son] of [·· ? ··]cianos and grandson of [·· ? ··], lover of the ?goddess

Commentary:

It is probable that the goddess to whom the subject was devoted was Aphrodite; but if the text recorded a statue of another deity it would of course refer to that.

Photographs:
none.

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