Description of Monument

Seven fragments from the lower part of a white marble statue base shaft (width 0.52, depth 0.42) with moulded panels on at least two sides. f: (lines 5-8) Left side moulding (0.18 × 0.12 × 0.10).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, with the text occasionally impinging on the moulding.

Description of Letters

lines 1-14, 00.015-0.02; lines 15 ff., 0.02. Ligatures: ΜΝ, l.6; ΤΗ, l.10; ΗΝ, l.22; diairesis on initial I, l.10. Dot for stop, and for abbreviation.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (nomenclature, lettering)

Edition πρωταρχουντ Λατέως αδ ἀρχιερέων καὶ στεφανηφόρων ἐκγονον ἀνδρῶν πρωτ τευσάντων ἐν τῇ πόλει ταῖς κορυφαιοτάταῖς ἀρχαῖς καὶ λειτουρ γίαις ἐξετασθέντων ζήσαντα κοσ μίως καὶ τῇ αὑτοῦ σεμνότητι καὶ ἐ πεικείᾳ ἐπιλαμ πρύναντα τὴν τοῦγένους ἀξίαν ἀ πολίποντα τῇ ἱερω τάτῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰ ωνίους διανομὰς ἀργυρίου ἀρχαῖα δηνάρια ε ἐπιμελησαμέ νων τῆς ἀναστά σεvς τοῦ ἀνδρι άντος Οὐλπίου Κλαυδίου Αὐρηλίου Μενίππου Ἀετί ου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ καί Οὐλπίων Κλαυδίων Αὐρρηλίων Ζηνᾶ Φωσφο ρίου καὶ Μενίππου Ἀετίου καὶ Ἀτ ταλίδος τῶν ἀδελ φοτεκνίων αὐτοῦ καθὼς αὐτὸς δι ετάξατο

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were read by Hirschfeld (lines 1-7) and by K&R, when the stone they saw was complete, but not subsequently.

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

1.180 may be further fragments of the same stone.

Locations

Four fragments, a, d,and f found in the Temple/Church, reused in the Byzantine bema; two fragments, b and c found reused in a village house ('Maison Khamil', Boulanger). One fragment, e, seen in the Temple in 1874, but found re-used in a City, Village house in 1983. Unknown b, c and e in the Museum; a and d in the Temple Church.

Text Constituted From

Publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

e copied by Hirschfeld in 1874; b and c copied by Kubitschek (K.18, Abklatsch 10), when they still formed a single stone; b recorded by Boulanger (notebook B, 41, no.45), and by the MAMA expedition; all were found by the NYU expedition: a Temple 23; b 83.71, SBI 113; c 72.489; d Temple 9, SBI 94; e 83.83; f Temple 26; g: Temple 44

Bibliography

b and c published by Cormack from the MAMA records, and from K&R, MAMA 8, no. 511, whence McCabe 337; e published by Cormack, from Hirschfeld, ABSA 59, 1964, 29, no. 45, on which Robert, AC 35, 1966, 424, note 3 (l. 5), whence BE 1967.552, McCabe 378.

Photographs

Fragment a. (1977)

Fragment b. (1983)

Fragment b. (1983)

Fragment c. (1973)

Fragment c. (1977)

Fragment d. (1976)

Fragment e. (1983)

Fragment e. (1983)

a: 66.A.13; c: KTE; d: JMR 1.66.53; f: 66.1.51

Representations

Fragments b and c: Kubitschek notebook V, 18