1.124. Honours for Molossos
- Description:
- Damaged rectangular white marble base, with holes for the feet of a statue on top (W. 0.38 × H. 0.18 × D. 0.41).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.025
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1965)
- History of discovery:
- Found by the NYU expedition (62.406)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ··]Ι̣Η̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[··] Μολ̣οσσ̣ο̣- [·· ? ··]-
- 3 κι̣ανοῦ καὶ ἐγ̣γ̣[?ονος]
- 4 vac. φ̣ι̣λ̣όθε̣ο̣ς̣ vac. arabesque
- 1[ - - - ]··[ - - - ]
- 2[··]ΜΟ·ΟΣ··-[ - - - ]
- 3Κ·ΑΝΟΥΚΑΙΕ··[····]
- 4 ···ΟΘ··· arabesque
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ιη
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
Μο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
οσ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
σο
</unclear>
-
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
κ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
ανοῦ
καὶ
ἐ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
γγ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ονος
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
φιλ
</unclear>
όθ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
εος
</unclear>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<g
type="arabesque"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 2, the underdotted letters are very incomplete
l. 3, or ΚΑΙΕΡΜ
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Molossos [son] of [·· ? ··]cianos and grandson of [·· ? ··], lover of the ?goddess
Commentary:
It is probable that the goddess to whom the subject was devoted was Aphrodite; but if the text recorded a statue of another deity it would of course refer to that.
- Photographs:
- none.
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