<rs type="textType">Building inscription</rs> by Aristokles [Molossos] son of Ar[temidoros]

Joyce M. Reynolds 1991

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Description of Monument

Two adjacent, but not adjoining, fragments of a white marble panel, 0.17-0.19 thick, with a simple moulding above, complete but damaged at either side and broken below. a 0.395 × 0.685, b 0.42 × 0.68.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The text must have been presented in columns, with one at least to the left of this one.

Letters

0.025 - 0.03.

Date

Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)

Edition ὑπὸ Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου Μολόσσου τῶν τριῶν εἰς τὸ θέατρον εἰσόδων τὰ περιοικοδομήματα λιθέας καὶ λ ἀκρωτήρια τὰ εἰς τὴν κε τα ἐντος τοῦ θεάτρου τ καὶ τὴν καταστέγασιν
Apparatus

l. 2, ΤΡΙΩΝ might possibly the end of a word begun in l.3.

ll. 2-3, οἰκοδομήματα would be possible, but for περιοικοδομήματα in a theatrical context see O.A.W. Dilke, MH 5 (1948), 64 (SEG)

l.6, cf καταστεγάζω, L.B. Holland, AJA 54 (1950), 343-6 (SEG)

Translation

[?. . . ] by Aristokles [Molossos] son of Ar[temidoros, . . . the . . .] ? of the three (?) entries into the theatre [ . . ? . . ?surrounding] walls (?buildings) of marble and [. . . ? . . . ] acroteria, those for the [ . . . ? . . .] within the theatre [ . . . ? . . .] and the roofing.

Commentary

One of a group of inscriptions, in a distinctive hand, by Aristokles Molossos: 8.113, 8.111, 8.112, 8.108 and 1173; cf also 8.82); see Reynolds, Aph Papers 2.

This cannot be the opening of the text, which may have started in an adjacent column to the left.

Locations

a. loose find; b. Walls, South-east Very probably in the TheatreMuseum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Found by the NYU expedition, a in 1968 (68.333), b in 1977.

Bibliography

published by Reynolds, Aph Papers 2, A.1, whence SEG 1991.911.

Photographs