13.503. Building dedication to Demos
- Description:
- A single block of white marble ?Architrave block (H. 2.59 × W. 0.39 x depth not measurable).
- Text:
- Letters:
- l. 1, 0.07, l.2, 0.06-0.065
- Date:
- Late first century B.C. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South-west: In a reservoir 3 km. west of the city wall (the Theatre bears 75o); same general area as 13.609 (=MAMA 411), 13.502 (=MAMA 533).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1934)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 441, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 117.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Μένανδρος Ἀττάλου [τὰ ἐπιστύλια]
- 2 καὶ τὸν ἐπ′ αὐτῶν [κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι]
- 1ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ[············]
- 2ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠ′ΑΥΤΩΝ[················]
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Μένανδρος
Ἀττάλου
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τὰ
ἐπιστύλια
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καὶ
τὸν
ἐπ′
αὐτῶν
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κόσμον
τῶι
Δήμωι
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Translation:
Menandros son of Attalos, [the epistyles] and the [decoration] on them [for the People].
Commentary:
This is one of a group of such texts, all others found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405 (=CIG 2752), 12.503 (=LBW 1589), 12.504 (= LBW 1591), 12.505 (=MAMA 439), 12.506 (=MAMA 440), 13.503 (=MAMA 441), 12.406 (=MAMA 442), 12.407 (=MAMA 443), 12.408 (=MAMA 442), 12.404 (= Reinach 127 and 128).
The group discussed byReynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39..
- Photographs:
- none.
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