8.52. Statue dedication of a statue of Demos by Nikomachos and Menodotos.
- Description:
- White marble statue base with elaborate moulding above and below, chipped at the upper right corner (W. 0.84 × H. 0.68 × D. 0.84). The statue of the Demos was found with it.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.025; circular stops.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (titulature, nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Theatre
- Last recorded location:
- Museum, on display next to the statue of the Demos
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.1023; SBI 151)
- Bibliography:
- Published (in majuscule) with the statue, by K.T. Erim & R. R. R. Smith, Aphrodisias Papers 2, 74, whence SEG 1991.921.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Ἀφροδίτῃ θεοῖς Σεβαστοῖς
- 2 τῷ Δήμῳ τὸ ἄγαλμα τοῦ Δή-
- 3μου Νικόμαχος Μηνοδότου
- 4 τοῦ Μενάνδρου καὶ Μηνόδο-
- 5τος Νικομάχου τοῦ Μηνοδό-
- 6του καθὼς ἐπηνγίλαντο star
- 1ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΘΕΟΙΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΙΣ
- 2ΤΩΔΗΜΩΤΟΑΓΑΛΜΑΤΟΥΔΗ
- 3ΜΟΥΝΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΣΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥ
- 4ΤΟΥΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΚΑΙΜΗΝΟΔΟ
- 5ΤΟΣΝΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΥΤΟΥΜΗΝΟΔΟ
- 6ΤΟΥΚΑΘΩΣΕΠΗΝΓΙΛΑΝΤΟ star
Translation:
For Aphrodite, the gods Augusti, the People: the statue of the People Nikomachos son of Menodotos the son of Menandros and Menodotos son of Nikomachos the son of Menodotos (put up) as they promised.
Commentary:
Strictly the date should be after the deification of Livia Augusta, but it is possible to envisage a dedication of this sort in the east much earlier. On statues of Demos see NPMilner, AS 38, (1988), 137.
For another dedication of a statue of Demos see 2.111 (=62.452) (mentioned by Erim and Smith)
Photographs:
- Face (2005)
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