5.205. Column dedication to Demos
- Description:
- Two blue marble columns; i. 0.48, H. 1.13
- Text:
- i. inscribed at about 0.06 above moulding.
- Letters:
- 0.03
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (monument, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic baths, East Court: in the 'salle aux vingt colonnes'.
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic baths, East Court: in the 'salle au vingt colonnes', at the south east corner of the east court.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Mendel copied i and referred to ii (notebook A, 7, b; C, 9); the NYU expedition rediscovered i in 1988.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Mendel CRAI 1906, 172-173, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 130 & 131
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- i
- 1Νέστωρ καὶ Ζήνων
- 2 οἱ Ἐπιγόνου τοῦ Δι-
- 3οσκουρίδου τοὺς
- 4 δεκατέσσαρας κεί-
- 5ονας σὺν τοῖς σπει-
- 6ροκεφάλοις ἐκ τῶν ἰ-
- 7δίων ἀνέθηκαν τῷ
- 8 vac. Δήμῳ vac.
- ii
- 1Νέστωρ καὶ Ζήνων
- 2 οἱ Ἐπιγόνου τοῦ Δι-
- 3οσκουρίδου τοὺς
- 4 δεκατέσσαρας κεί-
- 5ονας σὺν τοῖς σπει-
- 6ροκεφάλοις ἐκ τῶν ἰ-
- 7δίων ἀνέθηκαν τῷ
- 8 vac. Δήμῳ vac.
- i
- 1ΝΕΣΤΩΡΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝ
- 2ΟΙΕΠΙΓΟΝΟΥΤΟΥΔΙ
- 3ΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΣ
- 4ΔΕΚΑΤΕΣΣΑΡΑΣΚΕΙ
- 5ΟΝΑΣΣΥΝΤΟΙΣΣΠΕΙ
- 6ΡΟΚΕΦΑΛΟΙΣΕΚΤΩΝΙ
- 7ΔΙΩΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΑΝΤΩ
- 8 ΔΗΜΩ
- ii
- 1ΝΕΣΤΩΡΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝ
- 2ΟΙΕΠΙΓΟΝΟΥΤΟΥΔΙ
- 3ΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΣ
- 4ΔΕΚΑΤΕΣΣΑΡΑΣΚΕΙ
- 5ΟΝΑΣΣΥΝΤΟΙΣΣΠΕΙ
- 6ΡΟΚΕΦΑΛΟΙΣΕΚΤΩΝΙ
- 7ΔΙΩΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΑΝΤΩ
- 8 ΔΗΜΩ
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Translation:
Nestor and Zenon sons of Epigonos the son of Dioscurides dedicated the fourteen columns with the capitals at their own expense to the People
Commentary:
These two columns are from a group of fourteen dedicated by by Nestor and Zenon. Another four survive from the six dedicated by Artemon (Mendel 172). For further column dedications from the Hadrianic Baths see Boulanger B Page 23, no 29, and 84.64.
Photographs:
- i. Text from left (1988)
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- i. Text from right (1988)
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Representations:
- Boulanger, notebook A, page 7
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