Description:
A white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels (H. 0.99 x W. 0.40 x D. 0.37), chipped on all edges; there is a hole on the top for the attachment of a crowning feature
Text:
Inscribed on the face. L.1 is inscribed on the upper moulding, but was not seen by earlier copyists; the text must have begun on the crowning feature.
Letters:
Standard second-/third-century forms, 0.02. Apices: on Η, l.9.
Date:
A.D. 226 (contests)
Findspot:
City, Village: in the ruins of a house north east of the Tetrapylon, slightly west of the Water Channel area
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by H. P. Borrell, and perhaps also by Bailie; by Le Bas; by the NYU expedition in 1976 (excavation inventory no. 76.84, SBI 63).
Bibliography:
Published, from Borrell's copy and possibly one of his own, by Bailie, no. 49; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW 596, whence Liermann, Analecta 25. Published by Roueché, PPA 83.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 [τὸν δεῖνα ·· ? ·· στ]-
2[εφ]ανωθέν̣[τα]
3 παίδων στάδι-
4ον τῷ ἐπιτελε-
5σθέντι ἀγῶνι
6 τῆς πεντε-
7καιδεκάτης
8 τετραετηρίδος
9 Ἀφρoδεισιήων
10 Φιλημονιήων
11 ἀγωνοθετούν-
12των τῶν περὶ
13 Ἰούλιον Αὐρήλι-
14ον Ζήλου ἀρχι-
15ερέως υἱὸν Χα-
16ρίδημον νεο-
17ποιῶν stop τὴν δὲ -
18νάστασιν τοῦ̣
19 ἀνδριάντος
20 ποιησαμένου
21 Ἰουλίου Κρατε-
22ρου τοῦ πατρὸς
23 αὐτοῦ
1[···][·····][ - - - ··]
2[··]ΑΝΩΘΕ·[··]
3ΠΑΙΔΩΝΣΤΑΔΙ
4ΟΝΤΩΕΠΙΤΕΛΕ
5ΣΘΕΝΤΙΑΓΩΝΙ
6ΤΗΣΠΕΝΤΕ
7ΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΤΗΣ
8ΤΕΤΡΑΕΤΗΡΙΔΟΣ
9ΑΦΡOΔΕΙΣΙΗΩΝ
10ΦΙΛΗΜΟΝΙΗΩΝ
11ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥΝ
12ΤΩΝΤΩΝΠΕΡΙ
13ΙΟΥΛΙΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙ
14ΟΝΖΗΛΟΥΑΡΧΙ
15ΕΡΕΩΣΥΙΟΝΧΑ
16ΡΙΔΗΜΟΝΝΕΟ
17ΠΟΙΩΝ stop ΤΗΝΔΕ[·]
18ΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΝΤΟ·
19ΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣ
20ΠΟΙΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΥ
21ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥΚΡΑΤΕ
22ΡΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΤΡΟΣ
23 ΑΥΤΟΥ
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τὸν
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δεῖνα
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<supplied reason="lost" >
στ
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εφ
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ανωθέ
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ν
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τα
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παίδων
στάδι
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ον
τῷ
ἐπιτελε
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σθέντι
ἀγῶνι
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τῆς
πεντε
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καιδεκάτης
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τετραετηρίδος
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Ἀφρoδεισιήων
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Φιλημονιήων
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ἀγωνοθετούν
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των
τῶν
περὶ
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Ἰούλιον
Αὐρήλι
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ον
Ζήλου
ἀρχι
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ερέως
υἱὸν
Χα
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ρίδημον
νεο
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ποιῶν
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τὴν
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νάστασιν
το
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ἀνδριάντος
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ποιησαμένου
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Ἰουλίου
Κρατε
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ρου
τοῦ
πατρὸς
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αὐτοῦ
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Apparatus

Line 17: the letter which earlier copyists read but we did not has been highlighted.

Translation:

[- -], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the fifteenth four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Julius Aurelius Charidemos, son of Zelos, high-priest. Julius Krateros, his father, undertook the erection of the statue.

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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