15.261. Posthumous honours for Diogenes son of Menandros
- Description:
- No description (?statue base or block)
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
- Ornate apices on Φ, Χ, Ρ shown by Boeckh, presumably from Rochette, but not shown by Deering.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (content)
- Findspot:
- Unknown
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Unknown
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Raoul Rochette; by Deering (4v, no.17).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh, from Raoul-Rochette, CIG 2778, whence Liermann 63-65, no. 11; SEG 30, 1244, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 270 . Lines 5/6 discussed by L. Robert, AntClass 1966, 418 n.1.
- Text constituted from:
- Deering notebook; publication. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 ἡ βουλὴ καῖ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη̣σαν καὶ
- 2 μετη̣λλαχοτα ταῖς μεγίσται̣ς̣ καὶ
- 3 καλλίσταις τείμαις Διογένην Μενάν-
- 4δρου τοῦ Διογένους ἱερέα γενόμενον Θε-
- 5ᾶς Ἀφροδείτης καὶ Θεῶν Σεβαστῶν ἀμε-
- 6ριμνίας γυμνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ στεφα-
- 7νηφορήσαντα καὶ ἱερεύσαντα τῶν Σεβασ-
- 8τῶν ὑπερβαλλούσαις φιλοδοξίαις καὶ
- 9 πανδήμοις ἑστιάσε[σ]ιν καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τε-
- 10λέσαντα φιλοδόξως καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ εὐσε-
- 11βῶς [···]
- 1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜ·ΣΑΝΚΑΙ
- 2ΜΕΤ·ΛΛΑΧΟΤΑΤΑΙΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΑ··ΚΑΙ
- 3ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΜΕΝΑΝ
- 4ΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΙΕΡΕΑΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΝΘΕ
- 5ΑΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣΚΑΙΘΕΩΝΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝΑΜΕ
- 6ΡΙΜΝΙΑΣΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΣΤΕΦΑ
- 7ΝΗΦΟΡΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΙΕΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑΤΩΝΣΕΒΑΣ
- 8ΤΩΝΥΠΕΡΒΑΛΛΟΥΣΑΙΣΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΙΑΙΣΚΑΙ
- 9ΠΑΝΔΗΜΟΙΣΕΣΤΙΑΣΕ[·]ΙΝΚΑΙΤΑΣΑΡΧΑΣΤΕ
- 10ΛΕΣΑΝΤΑΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΩΣΚΑΙΤΑΛΟΙΠΑΕΥΣΕ
- 11ΒΩΣ[···]
Apparatus
l. 1, ΕΤΕΙΜΙΣΑΝ Rochette ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ Deering
l. 2, ΜΕΤΙΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΤΕ Rochette, ΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ Deering
ll. 3-4, ΜΕΝΑ|ΝΔΡΟΥ Rochette, ΜΕΝΑΝ|ΔΡΟΥ Deering
l. 4, ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΓ Rochette, ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ Deering
l. 7, ΚΑΠΕΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑ Rochette
l. 9, ΕΣΣΤΙΑΣΣΙΝ Rochette, ΕΣΤΙΑΣΕΙΝ Deering
l. 10, ΦΙΛΩΔΟΞΟΣ, ΕΣΕΒΟΣ Rochette
Translation:
The Council and the People honoured, even after his death, with the greatest and most splendid honours Diogenes son of Menandros the son of Diogenes. he had been priest of the goddess Aphrodite and of the Securitas of the gods, the Augusti; he (acted as) gymnasiarch, stephanephorus and priest of the Augusti with outstanding ambition and feasts for the whole people, and carried out the magistracies ambitiously, and the rest with piety [...]
Commentary:
See Reynolds, 'Imperial Cult', 78, 'Further Information', 109, 'Ruler-cult', 44.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Deering notebook, page 4v
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