8.4. Statue dedication for Demos by Kotas
- Description:
- White marble statue base (W. 0.72 × H. 1.55 × D. 0.51) without moulding.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, which is chipped along the edges. Clamp holes have been cut into the area between lines 3 and 4, one of which has damaged the lettering of l.4.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.04; the lettering of l. 1 is larger, and more widely spaced
- Date:
- Perhaps late first century B.C. (lettering, content)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: re-used in the wall of the north analemma.
- Original Location:
- Theatre: perhaps on the 'Artemidorus monument' at the northwest corner of the stage buildings
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1967 (67.551; SBI 148)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 27, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.386, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 240.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 scroll Ἀρτεμίδωρος
- 2Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Πε-
- 3ρείτου stop στεφανηφορή
- 4σας Κότας ἀνέθηκεν
- 5 τῷ Δήμῳ τὴν εἰκόνα scroll
- 6 vacat
- 1 scroll ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΣ
- 2ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΤΟΥΠΕ
- 3ΡΕΙΤΟΥ stop ΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΗ
- 4ΣΑΣΚΟΤΑΣΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
- 5ΤΩΔΗΜΩΤΗΝΕΙΚΟΝΑ scroll
- 6 vacat
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/>
Ἀρτεμίδωρος
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n="2"
/>
Ἀπολλωνίου
τοῦ
Πε
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n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ρείτου
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type="stop"
/>
στεφανηφορή
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n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
σας
Κότας
ἀνέθηκεν
<lb
n="5"
/>
τῷ
Δήμῳ
τὴν
εἰκόνα
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type="scroll"
/>
<lb
n="6"
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<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Translation:
Artemidoros son of Apollonios the son of Pereitas former stephanephorus: Kotas set up the image for the People.
Commentary:
Kotas might be a further name of Artemidoros; but the phrasing suggests that he is a separate person. If so the image was presumably of Artemidoros.
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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- Face (1976)
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