2.508. Funerary honours for Kastor son of Menekrates
- Description:
- Part of a plain white marble base chipped on all edges, with upper and lower left corners broken and the front face water-worn (W. 0.46 × H. 0.77 × D. 0.39). There are holes in the top for an attachment.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. The text must have begun on a lost upper feature.
- Letters:
- 0.025; ligatured ΝΤ in l. 8.
- Date:
- Probably first century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967 (67.474).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος] ἐτεί-
- 2[μησεν ταῖ]ς καλλίστ̣α̣[ις]
- 3[τειμαῖ]ς̣ Κάστορα ὑὸν Με̣-
- 4[νεκ]ράτους τοῦ Κάστο-
- 5[ρ]ος τοῦ Μενεκράτους
- 6Ἰ̣άσονος ἥρωα νεανε
- 7αν καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν v.
- 8[ζ]ή̣σαντα π̣ρὸς̣ πᾶσαν
- 9[τέ]λειαν ἀρε̣τ̣ὴ̣ν̣ τ̣ὴν τει-
- 10[μὴ]ν ἀναθέντ̣ο̣ς̣ Ἰουλίου
- 11[···]ου Κάστορι τῷ ἑαυ-
- 12 vac. [το]ῦγνωρίμῳ vac. scroll
- 12a vacat
- 1[···················]ΕΤΕΙ
- 2[········]ΣΚΑΛΛΙΣ··[··]
- 3[······]·ΚΑΣΤΟΡΑΥΟΝΜ·
- 4[···]ΡΑΤΟΥΣΤΟΥΚΑΣΤΟ
- 5[·]ΟΣΤΟΥΜΕΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ
- 6·ΑΣΟΝΟΣΗΡΩΑΝΕΑΝΕ
- 7ΑΝΚΑΛΟΝΚΑΙΑΓΑΘΟΝ
- 8[·]·ΣΑΝΤΑ·ΡΟ·ΠΑΣΑΝ
- 9[··]ΛΕΙΑΝΑΡ·····ΗΝΤΕΙ
- 10[··]ΝΑΝΑΘΕΝ···ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ
- 11[···]ΟΥΚΑΣΤΟΡΙΤΩΕΑΥ
- 12 [··]ΥΓΝΩΡΙΜΩ scroll
- 12a vacat
Translation:
[?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.
Commentary:
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 (οἱ νεοί) since the honorand is a youth.
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 his grandfather and will have needed a second name to distinguish him. The honour was in fact set up by a friend whose name sugests that he had Roman citizenship, probably given to him or to his family by Augustus or a Julio-Claudian emperor—not quite impossibly C. Julius Zoilos or a descendant of his.
The family also probably figures in 11.6 (=MAMA 488).
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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