13.116. Restoration, by Kallikrates of the dedication made by his ancestors
- Description:
- Four adjoining fragments from the upper part of a white marble statue base shaft without moulding (together W. 0.50 x H. 0.79 x D. 0.24). Top and bottom are lost, but both sides survive.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.022; ll.1-2 are cut more lightly than the rest.
- Date:
- Document i: Late first century B.C. for ll. 1-2, Reynolds first favoured Julius as Caesar, but came to think of Octavian; Document ii: early second century. (prosopography, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: MAMA fragments found in a field wall north-east of the Stadium; other fragments stray finds.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Two fragments recorded by the MAMA expedition; found again by the NYU expedition, together with further fragments (62.268 a and b, 69.328).
- Bibliography:
- Two fragments published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 446, whence Lane, Berytus 15, 1964, 27-28, no. 3, Robert, Hellenica 13, 128-131, BE 1966.397, Lane, Corpus Mon. Dei Menis I no. 120, ll. 1-2. Published with new fragments Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 71-73, no. 1 whence SEG 30, 1980.1244-1245, BE 1982.355, AnnEpig 1980.866; republished by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 32, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.387, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 147 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 148
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds), publications. This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 Νίκη πάρ̣ειμ[ι] θεογενε[ῖ]
- 2 Καίσαρι ἀεὶ vac.
- 3 θεοῖς Σεβαστοῖς καὶ τῶ[ι]
- 4 Δήμωι τὴν Νίκη̣ν καὶ τὸν
- 5 [?λ]έοντα vac. Καλ[λ]ικράτης
- 6 Μολοσσοῦ ἱερ̣[εὺς] Μηνὸς
- 7[Ἀσ]καινοῦ καὶ Ἑ̣[ρμοῦ Ἀ]γοραίου [?τὰ]
- 8[προ]γονικὰ ἀν[αθή]ματα αὐτὸ[ς]
- 9[ἐπ]ισκευάσα[ς ἀπο]καθέστησε̣[ν]
- 9a vac.
- 1ΝΙΚΗΠΑ·ΕΙΜ[·]ΘΕΟΓΕΝΕ[·]
- 2ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΑΕΙ
- 3ΘΕΟΙΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΤΩ[·]
- 4ΔΗΜΩΙΤΗΝΝΙΚ·ΝΚΑΙΤΟΝ
- 5[·]ΕΟΝΤΑ ΚΑΛ[·]ΙΚΡΑΤΗΣ
- 6ΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΥΙΕ·[···]ΜΗΝΟΣ
- 7[··]ΚΑΙΝΟΥΚΑΙ·[·····]ΓΟΡΑΙΟΥ[··]
- 8[···]ΓΟΝΙΚΑΑΝ[···]ΜΑΤΑΑΥΤΟ[·]
- 9[··]ΙΣΚΕΥΑΣΑ[····]ΚΑΘΕΣΤΗΣ·[·]
- 9a
Apparatus
l.1: πα[ντ]είμ[ω ἀγάλματα?] MAMA, πά[ρ]ειμ[ι] Robert.
l.2: Καισάρε̣ι̣α εἰ MAMA, Καίσαρ[ι] ἀεί Robert
l.6: ἱε[ρεῦς Μῆνὸς Ἀσ]- MAMA
l.7: καινοῦ καὶ Ἑρ[μοῦ Ἀγοραίου τὰ] MAMA; ἀν[αθήματα πάντα] MAMA; [ἐπ]ισκευάσας [ἀποκαθέστησεν] MAMA.
Translation:
I am Victory, always present with Caesar, the descendant of a god. For the gods Augusti and the People, the (statue of) Victory and the ?lion: Kallikrates son of Molossos, priest of Men Askainos and of Hermes of the Agora, prepared and restored the dedications of his ancestors.
Commentary:
For the rededication, perhaps under an earthquake, the reign of Trajan seems probable. See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome 150-156, and also ‘Further information’, 109, ‘Ruler-cult’ 42-43.
Photographs:
- Fragment (1977)
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- Assembled (1980)
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- Assembled (1980)
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