8.113. Building dedication by Aristokles Molossos
- Description:
- Five white marble fragments from a long feature with moulding above a cornice (ave. H. 0.55 x ave. D. 0.30). Width, from left to right: a, 0.63; b, 0.34; c, 0.53; d, 1.03; e, 1.11; f,. 1.30.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.07-0.075.
- Date:
- Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)
- Findspot:
- Two blocks (e. & f.) from the right end found reused in the Walls, South-east, south of the East Gate, near 12.711), 12.539, 12.524; three more found during excavation of the Theatre: b. in Theatre V, 1967; a. in Theatre VI, 1968; c. & d. in Parodos area, 1969.
- Original Location:
- Unknown, Theatre
- Last recorded location:
- e. & f. still in situ; new fragments (a–d) in Museum.
- History of discovery:
- The blocks in the walls (e. & f.) copied in 1705 , near 12.413 by Picenini (10102, 33v) whence Sherard (10101, 45); copied by Deering (7, no. 30); copied by Fellows; copied by Loew; copied by K&R (no notebook entry); copied by Le Bas and by Waddington; recorded by Gaudin (121, 122); recorded by the MAMA expedition in 1934. Rediscovered by the NYU expedition, together with three further fragments (a. 68.709, b. 67.216, c. & d. 69.351) excavated in 1967-1969.
- Bibliography:
- e. & f. published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2755 and 2808; by Fellows, 19 whence CIG add. p. 1109; from these Bailie, 67. Listed by Franz from Loew, a.13. Published by Waddington, LBW 592 and 1586; by Reinach, from Gaudin, 132; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 435a, 435b, whence Hellenica 13, 127-128 (l. 3), BE 1966.396, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 99. All fragments published by Reynolds, Aph.Papers 2, A.5, whence SEG 1991.915.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Reynolds (1991).
- 1 Ἀφροδίτ̣ῃ θεο|ῖς Σεβαστοῖς τῶι Δήμωι [·· c. 27 ·· καὶ τὴν κ]|ερκεῖδα καὶ τὰς ψε|λίδας Ἀριστ[οκλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου
- 2Μολοσσὸς φιλό|δοξος καὶ φιλόπολις καὶ Κ̣[άικος Ἀρτεμιδώρου Παπίας ἐργεπιστα]|τήσαντος Ἑρμᾶ | Ἀριστοκλέο[υς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου]
- 3 κατὰ τὰς Μολο | σσοῦ τοῦ θρέψαντος αὐτ[οῦ διαθήκας προσεπηγγελμένου καὶ τὸ τρί]|τ̣ον διάζωμα τοῦ | θεάτρου vac.
- 1ΑΦΡΟΔΙ·ΗΘΕΟΙΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΙΣΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ[···································]ΕΡΚΕΙΔΑΚΑΙΤΑΣΨΕΛΙΔΑΣΑΡΙΣΤ[················
- 2ΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΣΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΟΣΚΑΙΦΙΛΟΠΟΛΙΣΚΑΙ·[·······························]ΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΡΜΑΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟ[·· ···············]
- 3ΚΑΤΑΤΑΣΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΥΤΟΥΘΡΕΨΑΝΤΟΣΑΥΤ[·· ···································]·ΟΝΔΙΑΖΩΜΑΤΟΥΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ
Apparatus
The extent of the missing space can be determined by comparison with the wording of 8.108 (=69.317).
Translation:
For Aphrodite, the gods Augusti, the People [·· c. 27 ·· and the] block of seats and the vaults: Aristokles Molossos, [son of Artemidoros], (entitled) lover of glory and lover of the city, and K[aikos Papias, son of Artemidoros (gave them); Hermas son of Aristokles [the son of Artemidoros] supervised the work in accordance with the will of Molossos, his foster-father, and also promised the third bank of seats in the auditorium.
Commentary:
One of a group of inscriptions, in a distinctive hand, by Aristokles Molossos: 8.113, 8.111, 8.112, 8.108 and (unpublished); cf also 8.82; see Reynolds, Aph Papers 2
Photographs:
- Block b, left end(1977)
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- Block b, right end (2005)
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- Blocks e. & f. (1973)
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Representations:
- Deering notebook, page 7
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