12.319. Decree of honours for Praxiteles son of Aristeas
- Description:
- White marble block (W. 0.68 × H. 0.74 × D. 0.48) complete on all sides, although upper left corner is lost, and left side is chipped; unfinished at back.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.02-0.025
- Date:
- Perhaps early second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part): Lying east of the city wall, just north of the East Gate.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by K&R (KIII.56, Abklatsch 39); recorded by Gaudin (43); recorded by the MAMA expedition; found by the NYU expedition (catalogue number 76.185).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, AAWW no. 7, whence Buresch, RhM 49, 1894, 431; published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 7, whence Abbott & Johnson no. 137, Robert, Et. Anat. 101; published by Cormack from the MAMA records as MAMA 414, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 14 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds), Gaudin squeeze, notebooks, publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἔδοξεν [τῇ βουλῇ κ]αὶ τῷ δήμ[ῳ]
- 2 γνώμη ἀ[ρχόντω]ν καὶ Ἀρτεμι-
- 3δώρου τοῦ Ἀ[ρ]τ̣ε̣μιδώρου τοῦ
- 4Νεικοτε̣ίμου γραμματέως δή-
- 5μου καὶ Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώ-
- 6ρου [π]αραφύλακος v. ἐπεὶ Πραξιτέ-
- 7λης Ἀριστέου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου νε-
- 8ανίας ἀγαθὸς ζήσας βίον αἰδήμο-
- 9να̣ καὶ κόσμιον καὶ ἄξιον ἐπαίνου τὰ
- 10νῦ̣ν ὑπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος ὑπείλη-
- 11π̣ται καθήκει δὲ τοῖς οὕτως ζή-
- 12σασιν καὶ μετηλλαχόσι τὰς ἐπὶ
- 13 τῇ κοσμίῳ ἀναστροφῇ μαρτυρί-
- 14ας κ⌜α⌝ὶ τειμὰς ἀποδιδόναι δε-
- 15δόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ
- 16 τετειμῆσθαι ταῖς ἀξίαις καὶ
- 17 πρεπούσαις τειμαῖς καὶ μετηλ-
- 18λαχότα Πραξιτέλην Ἀριστέου
- 19τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ Ἀλεξάνδρου νεανίαν γε-
- 20[νόμ]ενον ἀγαθὸν καὶ παντὸς
- 21[ἐπ]αίνου καὶ μαρτυρίας ἄξιον ἐ-
- 22[ξε]ῖ̣ναι δὲ καὶ τοῖς προσήκουσιν
- 23 αὐτοῦ ἀναθεῖναι ἰκόνα ἐν
- 24 ὅπλῳ ἐφ' οὗ καὶ ἐπιγραφῆναι
- 25 τὰς οἰκείας τειμάς vac.
- 26 vac.
- 1ΕΔΟΞΕΝ[········]ΑΙΤΩΔΗΜ[·]
- 2ΓΝΩΜΗΑ[······]ΝΚΑΙΑΡΤΕΜΙ
- 3ΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΑ[·]··ΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥ
- 4ΝΕΙΚΟΤ·ΙΜΟΥΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΣΔΗ
- 5ΜΟΥΚΑΙΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩ
- 6ΡΟΥ[·]ΑΡΑΦΥΛΑΚΟΣ ΕΠΕΙΠΡΑΞΙΤΕ
- 7ΛΗΣΑΡΙΣΤΕΟΥΤΟΥΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΝΕ
- 8ΑΝΙΑΣΑΓΑΘΟΣΖΗΣΑΣΒΙΟΝΑΙΔΗΜΟ
- 9Ν·ΚΑΙΚΟΣΜΙΟΝΚΑΙΑΞΙΟΝΕΠΑΙΝΟΥΤΑ
- 10Ν·ΝΥΠΟΤΟΥΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΥΠΕΙΛΗ
- 11·ΤΑΙΚΑΘΗΚΕΙΔΕΤΟΙΣΟΥΤΩΣΖΗ
- 12ΣΑΣΙΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΟΣΙΤΑΣΕΠΙ
- 13ΤΗΚΟΣΜΙΩΑΝΑΣΤΡΟΦΗΜΑΡΤΥΡΙ
- 14ΑΣΚΛΙΤΕΙΜΑΣΑΠΟΔΙΔΟΝΑΙΔΕ
- 15ΔΟΧΘΑΙΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩ
- 16ΤΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΘΑΙΤΑΙΣΑΞΙΑΙΣΚΑΙ
- 17ΠΡΕΠΟΥΣΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ
- 18ΛΑΧΟΤΑΠΡΑΞΙΤΕΛΗΝΑΡΙΣΤΕΟΥ
- 19···ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΝΕΑΝΙΑΝΓΕ
- 20[···]ΕΝΟΝΑΓΑΘΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΝΤΟΣ
- 21[··]ΑΙΝΟΥΚΑΙΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΣΑΞΙΟΝΕ
- 22[··]·ΝΑΙΔΕΚΑΙΤΟΙΣΠΡΟΣΗΚΟΥΣΙΝ
- 23ΑΥΤΟΥΑΝΑΘΕΙΝΑΙΙΚΟΝΑΕΝ
- 24ΟΠΛΩΕΦ'ΟΥΚΑΙΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΝΑΙ
- 25ΤΑΣΟΙΚΕΙΑΣΤΕΙΜΑΣ
- 26
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Apparatus
l. 14, ΚΛΙ
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
- Commentary:
- No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
- Stone at findspot (1973)
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- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, 56
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