5.3. Column dedication to Demos
- Description:
- Upper part of the shaft of a blue-white marble column (diam. across the top 0.42).
- Text:
- Inscribed in an area which is worn or broken away.
- Letters:
- Capitals with restrained seriphs; 0.025
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (monument, lettering)
- Findspot:
- South Agora: Portico of Tiberius SW; the southern end of the west portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown, but very probably from Hadrianic Baths.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1984 (84.64)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1Διο[γ]έ̣ν̣ης
- 2Λέον̣τ̣ος τοῦ
- 3Ἱέρωνος τοῦ
- 4Δι̣ογένους τοὺς
- 5[ vacat ἕ]ξ vacat
- 6[κεί]ονας σὺν
- 7σ̣[πε]ί̣ραις καὶ
- 8κεφαλεῖσιν
- 9 ἐκ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ
- 10 τῷ Δήμῳ
- 1ΔΙΟ[·]··ΗΣ
- 2ΛΕΟ··ΟΣΤΟΥ
- 3ΙΕΡΩΝΟΣΤΟΥ
- 4Δ·ΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥΣ
- 5[·······]Ξ
- 6[···]ΟΝΑΣΣΥΝ
- 7·[··]·ΡΑΙΣΚΑΙ
- 8ΚΕΦΑΛΕΙΣΙΝ
- 9ΕΚΤΩΝΕΑΥΤΟΥ
- 10ΤΩΔΗΜΩ
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Διο
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γ
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έν
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ης
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Λέο
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ντ
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ος
τοῦ
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Ἱέρωνος
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Δ
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ογένους
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ἕ
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ξ
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κεί
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ονας
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σ
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πε
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ραις
καὶ
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κεφαλεῖσιν
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ἐκ
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τῷ
Δήμῳ
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Translation:
Diogenes son of Leon the son of Hieron the son of Diogenes (gave) the six columns with ?tori and capitals from his own money for the People
Commentary:
For other column dedications from the Hadrianic Baths see two from a group of fourteen dedicated by Nestor and Zenon (5.205 [=Mendel 173], and four from the six dedicated by Artemon (5.2 [=Mendel 172]) and (a fragment) (unpublished) [=Boulanger B Page 23, no 29].
Photographs:
- Column (1985)
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- Text (1985)
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