Description of Monument

Part of a plain white marble base chipped on all edges, with upper and lower left corners broken and the front face water-worn (0.46 × 0.77 × 0.39). There are holes in the top for an attachment.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The text must have begun on a lost upper feature.

Description of Letters

0.025; ligatured ΝΤ in l. 8.

Date

Probably first century A.D. (lettering).

Edition Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν ταῖς καλλίσταις τειμαῖς Κάστορα ὑὸν Μενεκράτους τοῦ Κάστορος τοῦ ΜενεκράτουςἸάσονος ἥρωα νεανεαν καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν ζήσαντα πρὸς πᾶσαντέλειαν ἀρετὴν τὴν τειμὴν ἀναθέντος Ἰουλίουου Κάστορι τῷ ἑαυτοῦγνωρίμῳ

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Translation

[?The Council and the People honoured] with the finest [honours] Kastor son of Menekrates Iason, son of Kastor son of Menekrates, hero, a young man, fine and good, who lived in accordance with every perfect virtue. Julius [..?..] erected the honour to Kastor his friend.

Commentary

L. 2 indicates that the honours paid were public and therefore decreed by public bodies—probably, therefore, the city council, people, and/or perhaps gerousia, possibly the youth as well (οἱ νεοί) since the honorand is a youth.

The honorand is named with his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, one of whom had the second name Iason—probably his father Menekrates who had the same name as his grandfather and will have needed a second name to distinguish him. The honour was in fact set up by a friend whose name sugests that he had Roman citizenship, probably given to him or to his family by Augustus or a Julio-Claudian emperor—not quite impossibly C. Julius Zoilos or a descendant of his.

The family also probably figures in 11.6 (=MAMA 488).

Locations

Found: Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area. Original location: Unknown. Last recorded: Museum (1978).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967 (67.474).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1978)