12.534. Honours for M. Aurelius Ariston; establishment of a foundation by Aurelia Ammia
- Description:
- i: Lines 1-2 are on a large statue base capital (W. 0.55 plus moulding W. c. 0.24 x H. c. 0.43 x D. 0.625 with the upper moulding broken away, and broken below. ii: Lines 3 ff are 'on a square marble, with moulding, on ye ground' (Sherard); a white marble statue base, at least 1 m. high, of which three fragments survive. a: ll.1-4; upper edge remains, with moulding, very chipped (W. 0.10 × H. 0.22 × D. 0.30). b: ll.13-20; no edges (W. 0.105 × H. 0.255 × D. 0.19). c: ll.20-26; no edges (W. 0.10 × H. 0.28 × D. 0.15).
- Text:
- i. inscribed in two lines along the lower fascia. The text must have begun on a fascia of the upper moulding. ii. inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- l. 1, 0.03; l. 2, 0.025; ll.3 ff., 0.02-0.025. Ligatures: ΠΠ ll.4, 10, ΤΕ l.5, ΝΕ l.14, ΤΗ l.25, ΝΗ l.26.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east: i: half buried along the south face of the south-east stretch; ii apparently in or near the south-east stretch; fragments later found b in the wall of a house, a and c during the clearing of the Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- The capital is still in situ; the base fragments are now in the Museum.
- History of discovery:
- ii was copied, complete, by Sherard (BM Add. 10101, 14) and Picenini (10102, 25v, and, from Tisser, 75v) in 1705. Fragment b recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel in 1893 (no notebook record); recorded by the MAMA expedition (see Cormack, Notes 10 and 56, and MAMA 8. 491). a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition (no number, 69.318 and 69.323). i was first recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Lines 3 ff. published by Boeckh from Sherard papers, CIG 2774, whence Liermann, Analecta, 53, IX, Ziebarch, Zeitschift fergl. Rechtswissenschaft 16 (1903), 291-2, nos. 60 and 63, Laum, Stiftungen 104, and by Cormack, MAMA 491 and Notes on the Inscribed Monuments 10, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 340
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 0 [?(e.g.) κατὰ τὰ ἐψηφισμένα]
- 0a [?ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς]
- 1 καὶ τοῦ δήμου
- 2 Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Ἀρίστωνα
- 3 πεντάκι τοῦ Ἀρτεμι -
- 4δώρου Μεν̣ίππου ἄν -
- 5δρα τῶν ἐν τέλει πα -
- 6τρὸς καὶ π̣ρογ̣όνων
- 7 ἀρχικῶν καὶ λιτουργῶν
- 8 ἔκγονον Ἀρίστωνος
- 9 τρὶς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώ̣ρου
- 10 Μενίππου γυμνασιάρ -
- 11χου ζήσαντα κοσμί -
- 12ως καὶ αἰδημόνως
- 13 πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα
- 14 ἀρέτης ἐπαινεθέν -
- 15τα δὲ καὶ̣ ἐπὶ α̣ἷς ἐ -
- 16ποιήσατο ἀρχαῖς
- 17 τε καὶ λειτουργίαις
- 18 Αὐρηλία Ἀμμία Ζή-
- 19νωνος δ´ τοῦ Χρυσίπ-
- 20που τὸν ἑαυτ̣ῆς υἱ -
- 21όν ἥτις κ̣αὶ ἀνέθη -
- 22κεν τῇ ἱερω τ̣ά̣ τῃ
- 23 βουλῇ εἰς α̣ἰωνίους
- 24 κλήρους̣ ἀργυρίου
- 25 ͵βτο´ καθ̣ως διὰ τῆς
- 28 γενομένης ὑπὸ
- 26 αὐτῆς ἀναθέσε -
- 27ως δηλοῦται
- 0[·······················]
- 0a[··············]
- 1ΚΑΙΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥ
- 2ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΑ
- 3ΠΕΝΤΑΚΙΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙ
- 4ΔΩΡΟΥΜΕ·ΙΠΠΟΥΑΝ
- 5ΔΡΑΤΩΝΕΝΤΕΛΕΙΠΑ
- 6ΤΡΟΣΚΑΙ·ΡΟ·ΟΝΩΝ
- 7ΑΡΧΙΚΩΝΚΑΙΛΙΤΟΥΡΓΩΝ
- 8ΕΚΓΟΝΟΝΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΟΣ
- 9ΤΡΙΣΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ·ΡΟΥ
- 10ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡ
- 11ΧΟΥΖΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΟΣΜΙ
- 12ΩΣΚΑΙΑΙΔΗΜΟΝΩΣ
- 13ΠΡΟΣΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑ
- 14ΑΡΕΤΗΣΕΠΑΙΝΕΘΕΝ
- 15ΤΑΔΕΚΑ·ΕΠΙ·ΙΣΕ
- 16ΠΟΙΗΣΑΤΟΑΡΧΑΙΣ
- 17ΤΕΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΙΣ
- 18ΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΑΜΜΙΑΖΗ
- 19ΝΩΝΟΣΔΤΟΥΧΡΥΣΙΠ
- 20ΠΟΥΤΟΝΕΑΥ·ΗΣΥΙ
- 21ΟΝΗΤΙΣ·ΑΙΑΝΕΘΗ
- 22ΚΕΝΤΗΙΕΡΩ··ΤΗ
- 23ΒΟΥΛΗΕΙΣ·ΙΩΝΙΟΥΣ
- 24ΚΛΗΡΟΥ·ΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΥ
- 25ΒΤΟΚΑ·ΩΣΔΙΑΤΗΣ
- 28ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΣΥΠΟ
- 26ΑΥΤΗΣΑΝΑΘΕΣΕ
- 27ΩΣΔΗΛΟΥΤΑΙ
<ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
<note>
e.g.
</note>
κατὰ
τὰ
ἐψηφισμένα
</supplied>
<lb
n="0a"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ὑπὸ
τῆς
βουλῆς
</supplied>
<lb
n="1"
/>
καὶ
τοῦ
δήμου
<lb
n="2"
/>
Μᾶρκον
Αὐρήλιον
Ἀρίστωνα
<lb
n="3"
/>
πεντάκι
τ
οῦ
Ἀ
ρτεμι
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
δώρου
Με
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ν
</unclear>
ί
ππ
ου
ἄν
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
δρα
τῶν
ἐ
ν
τέ
λ
ει
πα
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
τρὸς
καὶ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
π
</unclear>
ρο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
γ
</unclear>
όνων
<lb
n="7"
/>
ἀρχικῶν
καὶ
λιτουργῶν
<lb
n="8"
/>
ἔκγονον
Ἀρίστωνος
<lb
n="9"
/>
τρὶς
τοῦ
Ἀρτεμιδ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ώ
</unclear>
ρου
<lb
n="10"
/>
Μενί
ππ
ου
γυμνασιάρ
<lb
n="11"
type="worddiv"
/>
χου
ζήσαντα
κοσμί
<lb
n="12"
type="worddiv"
/>
ως
καὶ
αἰδημόνως
<lb
n="13"
/>
πρὸς
ὑπόδειγμα
<lb
n="14"
/>
ἀρέτης
ἐπαι
νε
θέν
<lb
n="15"
type="worddiv"
/>
τα
δὲ
κα
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὶ
</unclear>
ἐπὶ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
ἷς
ἐ
<lb
n="16"
type="worddiv"
/>
ποιήσα
το
ἀρ
χαῖς
<lb
n="17"
/>
τε
καὶ
λε
ιτου
ργίαις
<lb
n="18"
/>
Αὐρηλία
Ἀμμί
α
Ζή
<lb
n="19"
type="worddiv"
/>
νωνος
<num
value="4"
>
δ
</num>
τοῦ
Χ
ρυσίπ
<lb
n="20"
type="worddiv"
/>
που
τὸν
ἑαυ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ῆς
υἱ
<lb
n="21"
type="worddiv"
/>
όν
ἥτις
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
αὶ
ἀ
νέθη
<lb
n="22"
type="worddiv"
/>
κεν
τῇ
ἱε
ρω
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τά
</unclear>
τ
ῃ
<lb
n="23"
/>
βουλῇ
εἰς
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
ἰων
ίους
<lb
n="24"
/>
κλήρου
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ς
</unclear>
ἀργ
υρίου
<lb
n="25"
/>
<num
value="2370"
>
βτο
</num>
κα
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
θ
</unclear>
ως
δ
ιὰ
τῆ
ς
<lb
n="28"
/>
γενομ
έ
νη
ς
ὑπὸ
<lb
n="26"
/>
αὐτῆς
ἀν
αθέσε
<lb
n="27"
type="worddiv"
/>
ως
δη
λο
ῦται
</ab>
Apparatus
The letters read by us are highlighted.
ll.4, 10:ΜΕΝΙΠΠΙΟΥ Sherard, presumably misreading a ligature (certainly in 4)
l. 5, ΕΝΕΛΕΙ, Sherard, again misreading the ligature
l. 9, ΔΟΡΟΥ Sherard, ΔΩΡΟΥ Boeckh
l. 17, ΛΕΙΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ Sherard; ΛΕΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ, whence λε[ι]του[ρ]γίαις Boeckh
l. 19, Δ Sherard; Α, whence [δ´], Boeckh
l. 22, ΙΕΡΑ Sherard
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
The man honoured is presumably the brother of M. Aurelius Attalos (15.321 [=LBW 1609a])
Photographs:
- i, face (1989)
-
- i, showing right side (1983)
-
- ii: a (1977)
-
- ii: b (1977)
-
- ii: c (1977)
-
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 5 to validate this file.)