15.258. Honours for anonymous
- Description:
- Fragment from the top, probably the right corner, of a white marble base (W. 0.24 × H. 0.15 × D. 0.09) with lightly moulded upper edge.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face
- Letters:
- c. 0.025
- Date:
- Perhaps first century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Stray
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.214)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ]μος ἐτε[ί]-
- 2[μησαν ταῖς κ]α̣λλισ - vac.
- 3[ταις τειμαῖς ··]Τ̣Ω̣Ν [··]
- 1[···············]ΜΟΣΕΤΕ[·]
- 2[··········]·ΛΛΙΣ
- 3[··········· ··]··Ν[··]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἡ
βουλὴ
καὶ
ὁ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δῆ
</supplied>
μος
ἐτε
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ί
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μησαν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ταῖς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
κ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
λλισ
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ταις
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τειμαῖς
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τω
</unclear>
ν
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
Apparatus
l. 3, Τ could be Σ
Translation:
[The Council and the] People hon[oured with the] finest [honours ·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The beginning of an honorary text. If it is right to read a tau in l. 3 the honorand may well have been an Ἀντώνιος; but there is a possibility that the reading here should be Σ, which would rule out this name.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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- Face (1977)
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