12.715. Fragmentary honours
- Description:
- Part of a fluted white marble column of oval section, probably cut from an earlier monument from which it retained the right side of an inscribed tabella ansata (die, W. 0.12 × H. 0.235).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one surface.
- Letters:
- 0.017, the last two lines in counter relief; lunate and square epsilon and three types of sigma: lunate, square, and 4-bar.
- Date:
- Second to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (west part): re-used on the inner face of the southern stretch of the city wall, west of the Theatre exit.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975 (Walls 130).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [· ?γυμνα]σ̣ιάρχου Α̣-
- 2[·· ? ··] καὶ ἐφηβαρ-
- 3[χου ·· ? ··]έους καὶ
- 4[·· ? ··]ο̣σ ἐμησ
- 5[·· ? ··]ων συν
- 6[·· ? ··]νίας κα-
- 7[·· ? ··]Ο̣ΣΦ̣Α̣ΝΙ̣
- 8[·· ? ·· ?νι]κ̣ηφορο̣
- 9[·· ? ··ο]υμενο-
- 10[·· ? ··]ΕΕΜΟΥ vv.
- 1[······]·ΙΑΡΧΟΥ·
- 2[ - - - ]ΚΑΙΕΦΗΒΑΡ
- 3[··· - - - ]ΕΟΥΣΚΑΙ
- 4[ - - - ]·ΣΕΜΗΣ
- 5[ - - - ]ΩΝΣΥΝ
- 6[ - - - ]ΝΙΑΣΚΑ
- 7[ - - - ]·Σ··Ν·
- 8[ - - - ··]·ΗΦΟΡ·
- 9[ - - - ·]ΥΜΕΝΟ
- 10[ - - - ]ΕΕΜΟΥ
<ab>
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n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
γυμνα
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
σ
</unclear>
ιάρχου
<orig
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>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
α
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<lb
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/>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
καὶ
ἐφηβαρ
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
χου
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
έους
καὶ
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
σ
ἐμησ
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
ων
συν
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
νίας
κα
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
σ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
φα
</unclear>
ν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
νι
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
ηφορ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ο
</supplied>
υμενο
<lb
n="10"
type="worddiv"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
εεμου
</orig>
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Mentions of gymnasiarch and ephebarch, not otherwise translatable.
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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