Description of Monument

White marble panelled block (1.11 × 0.86 × 0.40) with a moulded tabella ansata (die, 0.85 × 0.65), whose handles must have been completed on adjacent blocks. The upper left corner is broken away, and the bottom moulding is chipped along the edge; there are deep grooves, probably natural, on the face in the area of ll. 12 and 13, which the letter-cutter had to avoid.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face within the tabella.

Letters

0.03. diairetic dots in ll. 2, ΤΟΙΣ · ΤΑ · ΑΝΑ, 6: ·Α·ΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ, 7, accompanied by small superscript bars on ΚΑ·Ι·ΚΟΣ, both occurrences. Dot for stop in l. 8; erasure in l.1.

Date

Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)

Edition τῇ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ τοῖς Σεβαστοῖς τὰ ἀναλήματα καὶ τὰς ἀνόδους καὶ τὰ συστρώματα καὶ τὰς κερκείδας καὶ τὰς ψελίδας καὶ τὰ βάθρα πάντα Ἀριστοκλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου Μολοσσὸς Κάικος καὶ Κάικος Ἀρτεμιδώρου Παπίας ἐργε πιστατήσαντος Ἑρμᾶ κατὰ τὰς Μολοσσοῦ τοῦ θρέψαντος διαθήκας προσεπηγγελμένου καὶ τὸ τρίτον διάζωσμα τοῦ θεάτρου ἐκ τῶν Μολοσ σιανῶν προσόδων

Translation

For Aphrodite and the Augusti, the buttresses and the stairways, the ?paving (?panelling). the blocks of seats, the vaults and all the seats: Aristocles Molossos Kaikos, son of Artemidoros, and Kaikos Papias, son of Artemidoros (gave them); Hermas supervised the work in accordance with the will of Molossus, his foster-father, and promised also the third bank of seats (?) in the theatre auditorium from the income of Molossos' estate.

Commentary

One of a group of texts: 8.113, 8.111, 8.112, and 1173, cf also

8.82; see Reynolds, loc. cit. On line 12, Herrmann (in SEG) refers to 13, 128

Locations

Found: Theatre ;Theatre; Last known location: Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.317).

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, Aph.Papers 2, 15-28, no. A.2, whence 1991.912

Photographs

Face (1978)

Face (1978)

KTE68.18.3