Description:
A plain statue base shaft with recessed edges (h. 0.65, w. 0.335, d. 0.335) broken above and below.
Text:
Inscribed on the face. The inscription was apparently left unfinished; but it is also possible that the carver started on the familiar formula τὴν δὲ ἀ[νάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ποιησαμένου κτλ, and then discovered that it was not required
Letters:
standard second-/third-century forms, 0.025. Ligatures: ΗΜ, ΝΗ, l.5; ΝΝ, l.7; ΗΝ, l.10.
Date:
c. 196 A.D.(contests)
Findspot:
City, Water Channel area
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by Gaudin (105); by the MAMA expedition. Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (excavation inventory no. 64.238, SBI 14)
Bibliography:
Published by Paris and Holleaux, no. 3, whence Liermann, Analecta 23. Cited by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no.145. Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.506, whence BullEp 1972.414, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 344 . Published by Roueché, Performers and Partisans 81.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1·· ? ··]
2[·· c. 4 ·· νεικήσαν]-
3[τα παίδων στάδι]-
4ον τ̣ῷ̣ [ἐπιτελεσ]-
5θέντι stop ἀγῶνι τῆς
6 τρίτης τετραε-
7τηρίδος stop Ἀφροδεισι
8ήων Φιλημονήων stop
9γωνοθετούντων
10 τῶν νεοποιῶν τῶν
11 περὶ Μᾶρκον Ἀντω-
12νιον Ἀπελλᾶν Σε-
13βηρεῖνον stop τὴν δὲ Α
14 vac.
1·· ? ··]
2[············]
3[·············]
4ΟΝ··[········]
5ΘΕΝΤΙ stop ΑΓΩΝΙΤΗΣ
6ΤΡΙΤΗΣΤΕΤΡΑΕ
7ΤΗΡΙΔΟΣ stop ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙ
8ΗΩΝΦΙΛΗΜΟΝΗΩΝ stop Α
9ΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥΝΤΩΝ
10ΤΩΝΝΕΟΠΟΙΩΝΤΩΝ
11ΠΕΡΙΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΝΤΩ
12ΝΙΟΝΑΠΕΛΛΑΝΣΕ
13ΒΗΡΕΙΝΟΝ stop ΤΗΝΔΕΑ
14   
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νεικήσαν
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<supplied reason="lost" >
τα
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<supplied reason="lost" >
παίδων
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στάδι
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ον
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τῷ
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ἐπιτελεσ
</supplied>
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θέντι
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ἀγῶνι
τῆς
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τρίτης
τετραε
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τηρίδος
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Ἀφροδεισι
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ήων
Φιλημονήων
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<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
γωνοθετούντων
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τῶν
νεοποιῶν
τῶν
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περὶ
Μᾶρκον
Ἀντω
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νιον
Ἀπελλᾶν
Σε
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βηρεῖνον
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τὴν
δὲ
Α
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Translation:

[ - - ], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the third four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Marcus Antonius Apellas Severeinos. The ...]

Commentary:

See Roueché, Performers and Partisans ad loc.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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