Description of Monument
A simple white marble statue base shaft (0.35 x 0.965 x 0.33) with all edges surviving, but top right corner lost.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face; the text presumably began on a crowning feature.
Letters
Standard second/third-century forms, av. 0.02.
Edition
Ζήνωνα Ἀρτεμιδώρου
τοῦ Δημοφάντου νει
κήσαντα παίδων πυ
γμὴν τῷ ἐπιτελεσθέν
τι ἀγῶνι τῆς τρίτης
τετραετηρίδος
Ἀφροδισιήων Φιλη
μονιήων ἀγωνο
θετοῦντος Τίτου
Αἰλίου Ἀδράστου
τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν
τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ποι
ησαμένου Ἀρτεμιδώ
ρου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐ
του λαβόντος τὸ θέ
μα παρὰ τῶν κληρονό
μων τοῦ Φιλήμονος κα
τὰ τὴν Οὐλπίου Εὐρυ
κλέους τοῦ λογισ
τοῦ κέλευσιν
Translation
[ - - ], son of Artemidoros, son of Demophantes, who won the boys' wrestling in the contest celebrated for the third four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea when Titus Aelius Adrastos was contest president. The erection of the statue was done by Artemidoros, his father, who received the prize from the heirs of Philemon, according to the instruction of Ulpius Eurykles, the curator.
Commentary
See bibliography.
Locations
: City, Water Channel area, IV Tr.6
Unknown
Museum (1977)
Text Constituted From
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); publications.
History of Recording
Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by Gaudin (106); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.103; SBI 10).
Bibliography
Published by Paris and Holleaux, no. 2, whence Liermann, Analecta 22; cited by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 144; published by J. M. R. Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.505; discussed BullEp 1972, 414; discussed by J. M. Reynolds, A&R 58, whence BullEp 1983.392. Published by Roueché, PPA 79.