12.404. Building dedications, by Antipatros and by Dionysios, to Demos
- Description:
- Two complete white marble blocks, which do not join, from the plain architrave blocks, with a simple moulding above two fasciae. i: W. 2.66 × H. 0.36 × D. 0.36; ii: W. 2.03 × H. 0.36 x depth not measurable
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line on each fascia.
- Letters:
- Rather light cutting; i: 0.15, ii: 0.13.
- Date:
- Perhaps first century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east Gate: 'au dégagement de la statue de femme' Gaudin; reused together to create a course on top of elements of a tomb at the East gate (which bears 13.301 [=MAMA 472-3], 13.302 474-6], 12.609 and 12.411)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1976)
- History of discovery:
- i recorded by K&R (K III.55, Abklatsch 62); i and ii recorded by Gaudin (49 and 50);both found again by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- i published by Kubitschek and Reichel, no. 4; i and ii published, from Gaudin, by Reinach, 127 and 128, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 124, 126.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- i
- 1Ἀντίπατρος Μήνιδος τὸ ἐπιστύλιον
- 2 καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι v.
- ii
- 1Διονύσ[ιο]ς Ἀδράστου τοῦ Διονυσίου τὸ[·· ἐπιστύ[·· c. 6 ··-
- 2λιον κα[ὶ τ]ὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι[···]
- i
- 1ΑΝΤΙΠΑΤΡΟΣΜΗΝΙΔΟΣΤΟΕΠΙΣΤΥΛΙΟΝ
- 2ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠ'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ
- ii
- 1ΔΙΟΝΥΣ[··]ΣΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ
- 2ΛΙΟΝΚΑ[··]ΟΝΕΠ'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗ
Apparatus
Letters highlighted were seen by Reinach but not by us
Translation:
i: Antipatros son of Menis, the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.
ii: Dionysios son of Adrastos the son of Dionysios, the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.
Commentary:
This is one of a group of such texts, almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405 (=CIG 2752), 12.503 (=LBW 1589), 12.504 (= LBW 1591), 12.505 (=MAMA 439), 12.506 (=MAMA 440), 13.503 (=MAMA 441), 12.406 (=MAMA 442), 12.407 (=MAMA 443), 12.408 (=MAMA 442), 12.404 (= Reinach 127 and 128).
The group discussed byReynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39..
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