Description of Monument

Three frieze blocks: a, in two fragments (length, together, 0.78) has a space with a small moulding above, at the left end, before the text; it has the assembly mark ΗΑ. The other two blocks have no assembly marks; b, broken to the left, is 0.75; c, broken at the right, is 0.47.

Description of Text

Inscribed in three lines on the fascia.

Letters

0.025-0.03; dot for stop; ligatures: ΗΝ, ΗΜ, l. 1; ΗΝ, ΜΗΝ, l. 3

Date

Second century A.D. (lettering, institutions)

Edition Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Γάιον Ὁσίδιον Ἰουλιανὸν φιλόπατριν καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀναθέντα χρήματα εἰς ἀγῶνας ε τηρικοὺς καὶ τῇ θεᾳ Ἀφροδίτῃ καταλιπόντα ἀργύρεα χρυσένπαιστα δηλούμενα διὰ τῆς διαθηκῆς αὐτοῦ stop τὸ δὲ εἰς τὴν τεί μην τοῦ ανλοο εγηγ ῶν προσόδων ἐργεπιστατήσαντος Ἀνδρονείκου τοῦ Παρδαλᾶ τοῦ Παπίου

Apparatus

l .2, ΘΜΚΗ lapis.

l. 3, ἀναθήματος ? or perhaps ἀνδριάντος. At the end of the line perhaps a patronymic, perhaps an office.

Translation

The Council and the People (honoured) Gaius Hosidius Iulianos, a lover of his country and a benefactor, who dedicated money for contests [ on a ?-year] cycle and to the goddess Aphrodite bequeathed (offerings) of silver inlaid with gold as set out in his will. The [?money ] for the price of the [?offering ?he gave from] [...] income; the work was overseen by Andronikos son of Pardalas [?son of Papias].

Commentary

The same man was honoured by the gerousia in 8.38, also on the proskenion. See Roueché, loc.cit.

Locations

Theatre: stage area Theatre proskenion frieze. Inscribed on the blocks which make up the cornice, of the Doric order, above 8.1, the inscription of Zoilos, across the back of the Theatre stage. The blocks have simple moulding above, supporting water spouts in the form of lions' heads; the underside has a decoration of mutules. Despite the assembly marks, the elft end seems to join the right end of 8.38. Findspot: restored on the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth blocks from the north; all three blocks are damaged.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1971 (71.175 and an unnumbered block; a fragment found in 1988, 88.k)

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 55b.

Photographs

a, left end (1973)

a, right end (1973)

Fragment from b (1988)

b (1980)

c (1973)

Assembled in situ (1989)