1.160. Posthumous honours for Dionysios, and a foundation

Description:: Two fragments from the lower part of a white marble base with moulded panels on four sides. a: right side fragment (W. 0.28 ×H. 0.58 ×D. 0.25) with moulding to right. b: lower left corner fragment, with moulding to left and below (W. 0.25 × H. 0.34 × D. 0.34).
Text:: Inscribed on the face. a. inscribed face W. 0.19 ×H. 0.45; b. inscribed face W. 0.17 × H. 0.39.
Letters:: 0.02; ligatures: ΤΗ l.14, ΗΝ l.20; the numerals at the end of l. 17 cut on moulding.
Date:: Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Temple/Church: probably re-used in the Byzantine bema
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
History of discovery:: a copied by Kubitschek (KV.19, Abklatsch 22); by Ramsay; recorded (considerably damaged) by the MAMA expedition; recorded, still further damaged, by the NYU expedition
Bibliography:: Published by Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics p. 189, no. 72, whence discussed by L. Robert Villes d'Asie Mineure, second edition, p.64, Rev. de Phil. 1929, 134, n.1, and republished by Squarciapino, La scuola di Afrodisia 12, no. 4, whence BE 1948.211a; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 520bis, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 273; published by Erim and Reynolds, Sculptors of Aphrodisias no. 18, whence SEG 1990.941.
Text constituted from:: Publications; Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1991).

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1[ἐτείμησαν Διονύσιον

2[·· ? ··υ τοῦ Τα-

3[·· ? ··] τοῦ Δημη-

4[τρίου] τοῦ Πε-

5[·· ? ··] παῖδα τῶν

6[εὖ γεγο]ν̣ότων τε-

7[λευτήσαντα προ-

8[μοίρως ἀσ̣ύνκρ̣ι-

9[τον γενόμε̣νον

10[περὶ τὴν] πλ̣αστι-

11[κὴν τέχνην· τοῦ

12[·· ? ··]υ τοῦ Ζω̣-

13[·· ? ·· ἀν]ατεθει-

14[κότος τῇ] κρατίστῃ

15[βουλῇ εἰ]ς αἰωνί -

16[ους κλή]ρους ΚΑ̣Ι

17[·· ? ·· ἀ]ργυρίου (δηνάρια) Ρ̣Ι̣

18[ποιησαμέ]νου δὲ

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20ὴν καὶ̣ [ἀνάστασιν

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15[·······]ΣΑΙΩΝΙ

16[······]ΡΟΥΣΚ·Ι

17[ - - - ·]ΡΓΥΡΙΟΥ denarius ··

18[········]ΝΟΥΔΕ

19[······]ΑΣΚΕΥ

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Apparatus

The letters highlighted were recorded by previous visitors, but not by the NYU expedition.

Ramsay was the only person to read lines 1-4, and read more than MAMA in lines 5-11.

The numbers in l.17 were first read by the NYU group.

Translation:

The Council and the People honoured Dionysios son of [ . . ? . . ], grandson of Ta[ . . ? . . ], great-grandson of Demetrios, great-great-grandson of Pe [ . . ? . . ], descendant of well-born men, who died before his time, being incomparable in the art of modelling. [ . . ? . . ] dedicated to the most powerful Council for perpetual distribitions? ?110 silver denarii and arranged for the preparation and erection of the statue at his own expense.