12.705. Honours for anonymous

Description:
Fragment from the right side of a white marble block (W. 0.315 × H. 0.28 × D. 0.305).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.02.
Date:
mid first century A.D (prosopography, spelling)
Findspot:
Walls, south (west part): southern stretch, a little west of 12.918 (=MAMA 573)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1961)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (Walls 7)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
0 ·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ··]Ν̣Θ̣Ε̣
2[·· ? ··]ωνος τοῦ
3[·· ? ·· Π]απίαν τὸν καὶ
4[·· ? ··]π̣πον ἀνέσστη
5[σεν ·· ? ·· Ἀθ]η̣ναγορας Ἀθηνα-
6[γόρου τοῦ Εὐμάχου [τ]οῦ Διογένους v.
7[τοῦ ·· ? ·· τ]οῦ [··]ωνος
7a[·· ? ·· vac.
0·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]···
2[ - - - ]ΩΝΟΣΤΟΥ
3[ - - - ·]ΑΠΙΑΝΤΟΝΚΑΙ
4[ - - - ]·ΠΟΝΑΝΕΣΣΤΗ
5[··· - - - ··]·ΝΑΓΟΡΑΣΑΘΗΝΑ
6[·····ΤΟΥΕΥΜΑΧΟΥ[·]ΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ 
7[··· - - - ·]ΟΥ[··]ΩΝΟΣ
7a[·· ? ··   
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
νθε
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ωνος
τοῦ
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Π
</supplied>
απίαν
τὸν
καὶ
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
π
</unclear>
πον
ἀνέσστη
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σεν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀθ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
η
</unclear>
ναγορας
Ἀθηνα
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
γόρου
</supplied>
τοῦ
Εὐμάχου
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
οῦ
Διογένους
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="7" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῦ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
οῦ
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
ωνος
<lb n="7a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

Line 1, ?ν̣ο̣σ̣. But the nu could be the final letter of the honorand's first name, and if so ΘΕ could begin his patronymic.

Line 2 carries on his genealogy, which ended only in l. 3, and was followed by a second persoanl name.

Line 3 then indicates that he was also known in some other way, set out in line 4, ending, on the face of it, in a name (?or description) which referred to horses.

Line 5 presumably contained a word describing the monument, between the verb and the name of Athenagoras, who erected it.

Line 6: Athenagoras' gradfather's name can be supplied from 1.4.

Line 7: we do not know the names of Athenagoras' ancestors this far back.

Translation:

[So-and-so honoured . .? . . ] Papias also known as [ . . ? . . -]ppos (e.g. Philippos). Athenagoras son of Athenagoras [son of Eumachos] son of Diogenes son of [ . . ? . . ] son of [ . . .-]on set up [?a statue].

Commentary:

The Athenagoras of l. 5 ff. is almost certainly the father of the dedicator of columns in the Temple of Aphrodite (1.4, 1.5, 1.6). Too little of the honorands naem survives for identification at present, although Papias is a name that occurs among the first families of the city (see Name Index).

The double sigma in line 4 is paralleled by use of a numneber of doubled letters in other texts - a feature which occurs notably in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

Photographs:
none.

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