<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Meliton, kitharist

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

18 fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels on at least three sides (approximate H. 1.14, W. 0.55, D. 0.55),

Description of Text

Inscribed on two adjacent sides. Line 1 is cut on the upper moulding of Face a; the opening phrases must have been inscribed on a crowning feature

Letters

Letters 0.025-0.027; circle for stop; apices on ΙΕΡ (l.5), ΔΙΑ (l.9); ligatures: HN, l.5; second HN, l.6; MN, TH, l.9; NH, MH, l.34; NN, MH, l.38; NT l.41. In l.8, ΤΡΟ was written over an erased ΤΡΟΠ

Date

Εarly third century A.D. (contests)

Edition
e.g ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν Μελίτωνα Μελίτωνος τὸν καὶ Ἀγροίταν πυθικὸν καὶ κύκλιον κιθα ριστὴ ν ἱερονεί κὴν πλεισ τονείκην παράδοξ ον ἄνδρα εὐγενείᾳ καὶ τρό που σεμν ότητι δια φέροντα κα ὶ ἐπὶ τού τῳ μάλιστα θαυμα σθέντα κα ὶ τειμη θεντα ὑ πὸ τοῦ κυρί ου ἡ μῶν αὐτοκρά τ ορος ου ΑΙ υ υ υ υ ΜΙ ΤΩΙ ΣΙ νεικήσαντα Ἄκτια ἐν Νεικοπόλει Ἐφέσηα ἐν Ἐφέσῳ
Πύθια ἐν Ἱεραπόλει Ἄκτια ἐν Ἱεραπόλει Ἄκτια ἐν Ἄκτια ἐν Δαμασκῷ Ἄκτια ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Στράτωνος Πύθια ἐν Λαοδικείᾳ Συρίας κοινὰ Καππαδοκῶν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ Ἡρακλεία Κομμόδεια ἐν Τύρῳ κοινὰ Βειθυνίας ἐν Νεικομη δείᾳ Αὐγούστεια ἐν Τράλλεσιν κοινὰ Ἀσίας β ἐν Τράλλεσιν ] Δεῖα Ἅλεια β ἐν Φιλαδελφείᾳ κοινὰ Ἀσίας ἐν Φιλαδελφείᾳ ΙΕΙ ΟΜ Α μυ ιι Ι α πολειτείᾳ πόλεων ἐνδόξων καὶ ναιι βουλῇ καὶ προεδρίᾳ τειμηθέντα
Apparatus

The letters read by Reinach but not by us have been highlighted.

Translation

The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured Meliton son of Meliton, also known as Agroitas, pythic and cyclic kithara-player, sacred victor, frequent victor, extraordinary, a man distinguished by good birth and dignity of conduct, and for this very much admired and honoured by our lord emperor [... 6 lines ...], who won Actia at Nicopolis, Ephesea at Ephesus, Pythia at Hierapolis, Actia at Hierapolis, Actia [ at ...], Actia at Damascus, [? Actia at ] Caesarea Stratonos, P[ythia] at [?Syrian] Laodiceia, the provincial festival of the Cappadocians at Caesarea, Heracleia Commodeia at Tyre, the provincial festival of Bithynia at Nicomedia, Augusteia at Tralles, the provincial festival of Asia twice at Tralles, [?Deia Hal]eia twice at Philadelphia, the provincial festival of Asia [at Phi]ladelphia, [...2 lines ...] , honoured with ? citizenship of distinguished ?and [? ...] cities, and [?(membership of the) Council] and [? honorific seating].

Commentary

For Meliton see Stephanis, Διονυσιακοὶ τεχνῖται 1634. For discussion see Roueché, PPA 69.

Locations

Temple/Church: area Unknown Museum (1988)

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

A fragment from the upper left side of face a recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel (unpublished, K.V.18c, Abklatsch 13); recorded with a further fragment by Gaudin (40, 45). The upper of those fragments recorded by the NYU expedition, as well as seventeen further fragments, twelve of which join (inv. no. 86.43, Temple 17, Temple 29, and unnumbered)

Bibliography

Published, from Gaudin's squeeze, by Reinach, no. 148bis, whence (in part) Robert, 'Études d'épigraphie grecque', 29-30 (= OMS II, 1129-30), McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 301. Full text published by Roueché, PPA 69.

Photographs

a: Lines 2-5 (1988)
a: Lines 1-6, centre (1977)
a: Lines 4-18, right end (1976)
b: Lines 28-45, left ends (1966)
b: Lines 28-42. right ends (1977)
b: Lines 44-54, left end (1980)
a: Lines 21-26, left and right ends (1980)
b: Lines 27-44, left end (1976)
b: Lines 27-28, centre (1966)
b: Lines 46-50, right end (1966)

Temple 29 R_66_1_60

Representations

a: Kubitschek notebook V, 18 (1893)