2.522. ?Building dedication to ?divinity/emperor

Description:
Upper right corner of white marble statue base without moulding (W. 0.25 × H. 0.31 × D. 0.48).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.025; l.2, ΝΚ in ligature
Date:
Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: 'W. Odeon, Bishop's Palace, Tr. I, Str. 1'
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.261, SBI 20)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ··] θεῷ vac.
2[·· ? ··]Ν τὸν κρά-
3[?τιστον ·· ? ··]Κ̣ΙΣ ἐπι-
4 [·· ? ··]ριον -
5[·· ? ··]Λ
5a[·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]ΘΕΩ    
2[ - - - ]ΝΤΟΝΚΡΑ
3[······ - - - ]·ΙΣΕΠΙ
4[ - - - ]ΡΙΟΝ
5[ - - - ]Λ
5a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
θεῷ
<space extent="4" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ν
</orig>
τὸ
ν
κ
ρά
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
τιστον
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
κ
</unclear>
ισ
</orig>
ἐπι
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ριον
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
λ
</orig>
<lb n="5a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 3, [?πολλά]κις

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (dedicated) to the deity [·· ? ··(so and so)] the eminent [·· ? ·· ?many] times [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

It appears that a statue of a fairly eminent person is being dedicated to a divinity. Since the location is near the Temenos of Aphrodite who is often entitled θεός she may well be the divinity concerned. Since the subject has the title κράτιστος he was presumably of Roman equestrian status, possibly, but not necessarily, an official. In line 3 it seems probable that we have part of a statement that he did something many times.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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