12.307. Posthumous honours for Dionysios son of Artemidoros
- Description:
- White marble statue base without moulding, with lower part still buried(0.57 × 0.86 measurable x 0.47); damaged along the upper edge since the eighteenth century
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.025–0.035
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part): just north of the South-east gate, north of 12.325 (=MAMA 501), 12.326 (=451)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Copied in 1705 by Sherard (10101, 16) and by Picenini (10102, 27v, and from Tisser 76v) and by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 121); by Deering (7); by Fellows; ? by Bailie; by Waddington; by K&R (R.I.17v, mention); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh from Sherard papers, CIG 2769; by Fellows, Acct. 325, no. 33, whence CIG p. 1109, ?Bailie, Fasc. ii 36, no. 62; by Waddington, LBW 1608; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 480, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 272
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; Sherard papers; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
- 2 ἐτε̣ιμ̣η̣σ̣εν ταῖς καλλ̣ίσ-
- 3ταις τειμαῖς Διονύ̣-
- 4σιον Ἀρτεμιδώρο̣υ
- 5 τοῦ Μενίππου τοῦ
- 6Διονυσίου τοῦ Δη-
- 7μητρίου ζήσαντα
- 8 κοσμίως καὶ πρὸς ᾑ [[[·· ? ··]]]
- 9 ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς
- 9a vacat
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2[·Τ·Ι···ΕΝΤΑΙΣΚΑΛ·[··
- 3ΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΔΙΟΝ·
- 4ΣΙΟΝΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡ·[·]
- 5ΤΟΥΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΤΟ[·]
- 6ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥΤΟΥΔΗ
- 7ΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΖΗΣΑΝΤΑ
- 8ΚΟΣΜΙΩΣΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΗ[[[ - - - ]]]
- 9ΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑΑΡΕΤΗΣ
- 9a vacat
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ἡ
βουλὴ
καὶ
ὁ
δῆμος
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<app
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ἐ
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<gap
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extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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</rdg>
τ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ε
</unclear>
ι
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
μησ
</unclear>
εν
ταῖς
καλ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
<rdg
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>
ίσ
</rdg>
<rdg
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>
</app>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</rdg>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ταις
τειμαῖς
Διον
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ύ
</unclear>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
σιον
Ἀρτεμιδώρ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
<app
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>
<rdg
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υ
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<rdg
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>
</app>
<gap
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extent="1"
unit="character"
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</rdg>
<lb
n="5"
/>
τοῦ
Μενίππου
το
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type="previouslyread"
>
<rdg
resp="previous"
>
ῦ
</rdg>
<rdg
resp="autopsy"
>
</app>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</rdg>
<lb
n="6"
/>
Διονυσίου
τοῦ
Δη
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
μητρίου
ζήσαντα
<lb
n="8"
/>
κοσμίως
καὶ
πρὸς
ᾑ
<del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</del>
<lb
n="9"
/>
ὑπόδειγμα
ἀρετῆς
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<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
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</ab>
Apparatus
The whole of line 1, the first and last letters of line 2, and the final letters of lines 4 and 5 were read by Sherard and party , Deering and Waddington, but could no longer be read by 1934.
At the end of l.8 an area was thoroughly erased
Translation:
The Council and the People honoured with the finest honours Dionysios son of Artemidoros son of Menippos son of Dionysios the son of Demetrios, who lived a well-ordered life and one with a view to a ?demonstration of virtue.
- Commentary:
- No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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- Face (1973)
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Representations:
- Deering page 2
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