12.325. Posthumous honours for M. Fl. Antonius Lysimachos
- Description:
- Upper part of a white marble base without moulding (W. 0.48 × H. 0.42 × D. 0.38).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.325; ΗΝ in ligature, ll. 3, 7
- Date:
- II-III, ?after 181 (contests).
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part): re-used just north of the South-east Gate, on the inside, and north of 12.326 (=MAMA 451)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102 18 and, from Tisser, 53v) whence Sherard (1010, 16) and in 1716 by Sherard (10101, 121); copied by Deering (f. 2v, no. 9); recorded by Gaudin (163); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2785, whence Liermann 116-117, no. 20b; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 134, no. 64; published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 501, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 318; published by Roueché, PPA 54
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Sherard papers; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0 [(e.g.) ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν]
- 1 Μ̣(ᾶρκον) Φλ(άβιον) Ἀντώνιον
- 2Λυσίμαχον σο-
- 3φιστὴν ἀρχιερέα
- 4 γυμνασίαρχον
- 5 στεφανηφόρον
- 6 νεοποιὸν ἀγωνο-
- 7θέτην δι' αἰῶνος
- 8 Λυσιμαχήων
- 9 v. ἀγώνων v.
- 9a vacat
- 10 v. ἀγωνοθεσίας v.
- 11 Μάρκ̣ου Ἀντωνίου
- 12 v. Ἐπινείκου v.
- 0[··································]
- 1·ΦΛΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝ
- 2ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΝΣΟ
- 3ΦΙΣΤΗΝΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑ
- 4ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΟΝ
- 5ΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΝ
- 6ΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΝΑΓΩΝΟ
- 7ΘΕΤΗΝΔΙ'ΑΙΩΝΟΣ
- 8ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΗΩΝ
- 9 ΑΓΩΝΩΝ
- 9a vacat
- 10 ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΣΙΑΣ
- 11ΜΑΡ·ΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ
- 12 ΕΠΙΝΕΙΚΟΥ
Apparatus
l. 1, Η Sherard 1705, ΤΙ Picenini; I Sherard 1716; Μ added in pencil in Deering's copy. Traces of two uprights now visible.
ll. 9-12 were read with some difficulty by Sherard, but more clearly by Deering; by 1904 they were lost.
l.11, At the beginning ΚΑΙ Picenini, ΚΟΥ Sherard 1705, ΝΑΠΟΥ 1716; ΜΑΡΧΟΥ Deering.
Translation:
[? Public bodies honoured ] M(arcus) Fl(avius) Antonius Lysimachos, sophistes, high priest, gymnasiarch, stephanephorus, neopoios, contest-president in perpetuity of the Lysimachean contests: in the year when Marcus Antonius Epineikos was contest-president.
Commentary:
This text is obviously later than the establishment of the contest, but not more precisely dateable. M. Fl. Antonius Lysimachos must have been closely connected with Flavius Lysimachos, the founder of the Lysimachea (12.538 and 11.21); he is also honoured in a fragmentary text, 11.513 (=Reinach 63). The fact that Antonius Lysimachos is named as 'contest-president in perpetuity' (l.6) while the inscription also refers to a current contest-presidency (l.10-) implies that he had given money for a foundation to provide perpetual funding for the contest-presidency (see L. Robert, Documents de l'Asie Mineure méridionale (Paris, 1966), 83-5). Epineikos (a name not otherwise attested at Aphrodisias) was presumably carrying out the practical duties (compare 13.616).
For this contest see Roueché PPA 174ff.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Deering page 2v
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