15.214. Honours for ?Papias

Description:
Upper right corner of a white marble panel (W. 0.36 x H. 0.295 x D. 0.21).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
Ρ with a tail; 0.022
Date:
Second or first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.153)
Bibliography:
Unpublished
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
0[·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ·· ?Πα]πίαν vac.
2 [?ἄνδρα καλὸν κα]ὶ ἀγαθὸν v.
3 [·· c. 12 ··] πρὸς τὴν v.
4[?πατρίδα γεγον]οτα vv.
5 [·· c. 12 ··]ΦΙΛΟΥ
6[·· c. 12 ··] Α̣ΤΑ̣
6a[·· ? ··]
0[ - - - ]
1[ - - - ··]ΠΙΑΝ    
2[·············]ΙΑΓΑΘΟΝ 
3[············]ΠΡΟΣΤΗΝ 
4[············]ΟΤΑ  
5[············]ΦΙΛΟΥ
6[············]·Τ·
6a[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Πα
</supplied>
πίαν
<space extent="4" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἄνδρα
καλὸν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
κα
</supplied>
ὶ
ἀγαθὸν
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
πρὸς
τὴν
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
πατρίδα
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
γεγον
</supplied>
οτα
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
ΦΙΛΟΥ
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
Α
</unclear>
Τ
<unclear reason="damage" >
Α
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="6a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

. . . Pa]pias [ . . a man noble and] good . . . ]towards the [ ?fatherland, having been] . . .

Commentary:

There may have been a line lost above.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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