<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> and <rs type="textType">restoration</rs> of statues after an earthquake, authorised by Trajan, undertaken by Kallikrates Grypos.

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft.

Description of Text

Inscribed on two adjoining faces; b to left, a to right.

Letters

standard forms; no measurements.

Date

A.D. 102-116 (titulature)

Edition
τῇ προμήτορι Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ Ἀυτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Νέρουας Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικὸς ἐκ τῆς Ἀδράστου τοῦ Περείτου Γρύπου διαθήκης ἀποκαθέστησεν διὰ Καλλικράτους τοῦ Περείτου Γρύπου ἱερέως ἐργεπιστάτου
ὁ δῆμος τοὺς ἀνδριάντας τοῦ Κύκλωπος κατενεχθέντας ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ καὶ συντριβέντας καὶ ἀχρειωθέντας ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπισκευάσας ἀποκαθέστησεν
Translation

a: For the first mother Aphrodite and the People. Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus restored (this) from the will of Adrastos son of Pereitas ? Grypos, through Kallikrates son of Pereitas Grypos, priest, supervisor of the work.

b: The People prepared and restored the statues of the Cyclops, thrown down, shattered and made useless by an earthquake, at its own expense.

Commentary

See Reynolds, op. cit., with Reynolds, ‘Further information’ 111-2.

Locations

South Agora, Agora Gate: Trench 5; reused in a wall. Unknown Findspot (1983)

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.134)

Bibliography

a and b published by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 73-74, no. 3a, whence SEG 1980.1254, BullEp 1982.355, AnnEpig 1980.868; a republished by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 55, whence SEG 1982.1097, BullEp 1983.391; from all these McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 155 and 184. .

Photographs

a, view (1983)
a, face (1983)
b (1983)