8.108. Building dedication by Aristokles Molossos
- Description:
- White marble panelled block (W. 1.11 × H. 0.86 × D. 0.40) with a moulded tabella ansata (die, W. 0.85 × H. 0.65), whose handles must have been completed on adjacent blocks. The upper left corner is broken away, and the bottom moulding is chipped along the edge; there are deep grooves, probably natural, on the face in the area of ll. 12 and 13, which the letter-cutter had to avoid.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within the tabella.
- Letters:
- 0.03. diairetic dots in ll. 2, ΤΟΙΣ · ΤΑ · ΑΝΑ, 6: ·Α·ΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ, 7, accompanied by small superscript bars on ΚΑ·Ι·ΚΟΣ, both occurrences. Dot for stop in l. 8; erasure in l.1.
- Date:
- Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Theatre
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.317).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, Aph.Papers 2, 15-28, no. A.2, whence SEG 1991.912
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1991).
- 1 τῇ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ τοῖς Σεβασ-
- 2τοῖς τὰ ἀναλήματα καὶ τὰς
- 3 ἀνόδους καὶ τὰ συστρώματα
- 4 καὶ τὰς κερκείδας καὶ τὰς ψελί-
- 5δας καὶ τὰ βάθρα πάντα vac.
- 6Ἀριστοκλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου
- 7Μολοσσὸς Κάικος καὶ Κάικος
- 8Ἀρτεμιδώρου Παπίας stop ἐργε
- 9πιστατήσαντος Ἑρμᾶ κατὰ
- 10 τὰς Μολοσσοῦ τοῦ θρέψαντος
- 11 διαθήκας προσεπηγγελμέ-
- 12νου καὶ τὸ τρί vac. τον διάζωσμα
- 13 τοῦ θεάτρου ἐκ τῶν Μολοσ-
- 14 dot scroll dot σιανῶν προσόδων dot flower dot
- 15
- 1ΤΗΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΚΑΙΤΟΙΣΣΕΒΑΣ
- 2ΤΟΙΣΤΑΑΝΑΛΗΜΑΤΑΚΑΙΤΑΣ
- 3ΑΝΟΔΟΥΣΚΑΙΤΑΣΥΣΤΡΩΜΑΤΑ
- 4ΚΑΙΤΑΣΚΕΡΚΕΙΔΑΣΚΑΙΤΑΣΨΕΛΙ
- 5ΔΑΣΚΑΙΤΑΒΑΘΡΑΠΑΝΤΑ
- 6ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥ
- 7ΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΣΚΑΙΚΟΣΚΑΙΚΑΙΚΟΣ
- 8ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΠΑΠΙΑΣ stop ΕΡΓΕ
- 9ΠΙΣΤΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΡΜΑΚΑΤΑ
- 10ΤΑΣΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΥΤΟΥΘΡΕΨΑΝΤΟΣ
- 11ΔΙΑΘΗΚΑΣΠΡΟΣΕΠΗΓΓΕΛΜΕ
- 12ΝΟΥΚΑΙΤΟΤΡΙ ΤΟΝΔΙΑΖΩΣΜΑ
- 13ΤΟΥΘΕΑΤΡΟΥΕΚΤΩΝΜΟΛΟΣ
- 14 dot scroll dot ΣΙΑΝΩΝΠΡΟΣΟΔΩΝ dot flower dot
- 15
Translation:
For Aphrodite and the Augusti, the buttresses and the stairways, the ?paving (?panelling). the blocks of seats, the vaults and all the seats: Aristocles Molossos Kaikos, son of Artemidoros, and Kaikos Papias, son of Artemidoros (gave them); Hermas supervised the work in accordance with the will of Molossus, his foster-father, and promised also the third bank of seats (?) in the theatre auditorium from the income of Molossos' estate.
Commentary:
One of a group of texts: 8.113, 8.111, 8.112, and (unpublished), cf also
8.82; see Reynolds, loc. cit. On line 12, Herrmann (in SEG) refers to Hellenica 13, 128
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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