Description of Monument

Fragments of white marble architrave blocks (1.63 × 0.31 × 0.57-0.69 in depth) from the entablature of the north portico of the Sebasteion. Above is a decoration of mutules, spaced at intervals of 0.30.

Description of Text

The inscription runs in one line on a single, unstepped, face. The face is drafted above, below and at the ends of each block; the upper drafting line rises to follow the line of the moulding between the mutules. The inscription was cut when the blocks were in place, and letters run across joins.

Letters

0.09; small star for stop.

Date

First century A.D.

Edition Ἀφροδίτῃ θεοῖς Σεβαστοῖς Ὀλυνπίοις καὶ τῷ δήμῳ Εὐσέβης φιλόπατρις καὶ Μένανδρος οἱ Μενάνδρου τοῦ Εὐνίκου καὶ Ἀπφίας Μενάνδρου γυνὴ Εὐσεβοῦς ἀνέθηκαν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ὑπὸ σεισμῶν δὲ κατενεχθέντα καὶ ἀχρηωθέντα πάλιν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων Ἀπφίας σὺν καὶ Τάτᾳ τῇ θυγατρὶ καὶ Μενάνδρῳ καὶ Εὐσεβεῖ τοῖς ἐγγόνοις τελέσασα ἀποκαθέστησεν

Translation

For Aphrodite, for the gods Augusti Olympians, for the People: Eusebes entitled lover of his country, and Menandros, the sons of Menandros the son of Eunikos and Apphias daughter of Menandros, wife of Eusebes set this up at their own expense. After it was thrown down and made useless by earthquakes, again at their own expense Apphias completed and set it up again, in company with Tata, her daughter, and Menandros and Eusebes her grandsons.

Commentary

The text can be restored by comparison with the virtually identical text found in the Propylon, 1274 (=83.54+) (which only omits the filiation of Apphias). For the family see 1271 (=81.173+)

Locations

Found: Six architrave blocks were found in the Sebasteion. These formed the left end of the inscription, and are succeeded by several empty blocks. 16 fragments of the preceding text were found, over a period of several years, re-used in the defence wall built in the first half of the 7th century across the east wall of the Theatre. ; Last known location: Museum or restored on site (1981). Sebasteion

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition, in the Sebasteion in 1981 (from left to right, 81.88, 81.89, 81.87, 81.85, 81.94, 81.95) and in the East wall of the Theatre between 1967 and 1972 (71.440, 72.215, 72.162, 73.167, 73.151, 75.258, 73.111, 71.431, 67.471, 71.432, 72.164, 72.216, 70.247, 70.248, and 2 unnumbered fragments). Also 83.150.

Bibliography

Cited by Erim, 13, 1982, 278, note 8, Smith, 77, 1987, 90, whence McCabe 95.

Photographs

Fragment a. (1977)

Fragment a. (1981)

Fragment b. (1978)

Fragment c. (1981)

Fragment c. (1981)

Fragment c. (1978)

Fragment c. (1978)

Fragment c. (1977)

Fragment d. (1978)

Fragment d. (1978)

Fragment d. (1977)

Fragment d. (1978)

Fragment e. (1977)

Fragment e. (1981)

Fragment f. (1981)

Fragment g. (1981)

Fragment g. (1981)

Fragment h. (1981)

Fragment h. (1981)

Fragment i. (1981)

Fragment i. (1981)

Fragment j. (1981)

Fragment k. (1981)