12.929. Honours for the People of Tabae
- Description:
- Upper part of a white marble panel with moulded edges (H. 0.40 x W. 0.51 x D. 0.20), perhaps cut down from a deeper base
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face
- Letters:
- Letters standard second-/third-century forms, 0.03. Ligature: TH, l.1
- Date:
- Mid third century (prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Walls, West, with 12.924 and 12.925
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Copied (ll.1-5) by Sherard in 1716; found again by the NYU expedition in 1975 (excavation inventory number 75.142).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2765, whence Texier, Description, 156 no.1, Liermann, Analecta 35, J. and L. Robert, La Carie, 115, no. 23. Published by Roueché, PPA 63
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 ὁ δῆμος τῆς λαμ-
- 2προτάτης Ἀφρο-
- 3δεισιέων πόλε-
- 4ως τὸν λαμπρό-
- 5τατον δῆμον
- 6 Ταβηνῶν συν-
- 7θύσαντα ἐπὶ τῇ
- 8[δεδομένῃ τοῦ ἱε]-
- 9[ροῦ ἀγῶνος δωρεᾷ] v.
- 10 vac.
- 11[προνοησαμένου ·· ? ··]
- 12[·· ? ··
- 1ΟΔΗΜΟΣΤΗΣΛΑΜ
- 2ΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣΑΦΡΟ
- 3ΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝΠΟΛΕ
- 4ΩΣΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡΟ
- 5ΤΑΤΟΝΔΗΜΟΝ
- 6ΤΑΒΗΝΩΝΣΥΝ
- 7ΘΥΣΑΝΤΑΕΠΙΤΗ
- 8[·············]
- 9[··············]
- 10
- 11[············· - - - ]
- 12[·· ? ··
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ὁ
δῆμος
τῆς
λαμ
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προτάτης
Ἀφρο
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δεισιέων
πόλε
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ως
τὸν
λαμπρό
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τατον
δῆμον
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Ταβηνῶν
συν
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θύσαντα
ἐπὶ
τῇ
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δεδομένῃ
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τοῦ
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ἱε
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ροῦ
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ἀγῶνος
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δωρεᾷ
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προνοησαμένου
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Translation:
The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (honoured) the most splendid People of the Tabenai, who joined in the sacrifice for the [giving of the grant of the sacred contest. Under the supervision of ? -
Commentary:
This is one of a group of dedications for neighbouring communities: see 12.924, 12.925, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, and 12.930. See further Roueché PPA, ad loc.
Tabae lies immediately south-west of Apollonia Salbake; see L. and J. Robert, La Carie, ch. 2.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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