List of prizes for a contest

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

The upper left corner of a white marble block or panel (0.275 x 0.75 x 0.14)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

0.015. Ligatures: l. 2, ΜΜ; iii. ll. 3, 4 and 8, ΝΗ

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἀγῶνος ταλαντιαίου Φλαβίου Λυσιμάχου πενταετηρικοῦ μουσικοῦ μόνου θέματα τὰ ὑπογεγραμμένα
Σαλπικτῇ δηνάρια φ κήρυκι δηνάρια φ ἐνκωμιογράφῳ δηνάρια ψν ποιητῇ δηνάρια ψν πυθαύλῃ δηνάρια α δευτερείου δηνάρια τν ψειλοκιθαρεῖ δηνάρια α δευτερείου δηνάρια τν παιδὶ κιθαρῳδῷ δηνάρια ψν δευτερείου δηνάριασν
χοραύλῃ δηνάρια αφ δευτερείου δηνάρια φ χορῷ τραγικῷ δηνάρια φ χορωκιθαρεῖ δηνάρια αφ δευτερείου δηνάρια φ κωμῳδῷ δηνάρια αφ δευτερείου δηνάρια φ τριτείου δηνάρια τ τραγῳδῷ δηνάρια βφ δευτερείου δηνάρια ω τριτείου δηνάριαυ
κοινῇ κωμῳδῶν δηνάριασ κοινῇ τραγικῶν δηνάρια σι καινῇ κωμῳδίᾳ δηνάρια φ ἀρχαίᾳ κωμῳδίᾳ δηνάρια τν δευτερεῖον δηνάρια ρν καινῇ τραγῳδίᾳ δηνάρια ψν πυρριχῇ δηνάρια α δευτερεῖον δηνάρια τν ἀνδρὶ κιθαρῳδῷ δηνάρια δευτερεῖον δηνάρια
Apparatus

Letters read by Deering but not by us are highlighted.

Translation

For the contest, in the talent category, of Flavius Lysimachos, in a four-year cycle, musical only, the prizes are as follows:

Column i

Trumpeter, 500 denarii; herald, 500 denarii; encomium writer, 750 denarii; poet, 750 denarii; pythic flautist, 1,000 denarii, second prize, 350 denarii; flautist 1,000 denarii, second prize, 350 denarii; boy harp-singer, 750 denarii, second prize, 250 denarii; [ ? ...]

Column ii

Choral flautist, 1,500 denarii, second prize, 500 denarii; tragic chorus, 500 denarii; choral harp-player, 1,500 denarii, second prize, 500 denarii; comedian, 1,500 denarii, second prize, 500 denarii, third prize, 300 denarii; tragedian 2,500 denarii, second prize, 800 denarii, third prize, 400 denarii; [ ? ...]

Column iii

General contest for comedians, 200 denarii; general contest for tragedians, 210 denarii; new comedy, 500 denarii; ancient comedy, 350 denarii, second prize, 150 denarii; new tragedy, 750 denarii; pyrrhic dance, 1,000 denarii, second prize, 350 denarii; adult harp-singer, [? denarii], second prize [? denarii ...]

Commentary

Locations

City, Village: in a house Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); Deering; publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by an unnamed Armenian, whose copy came, via Gell and Rosius, to Boeckh. Copied by Deering (f. 6v, 28); a fragment by the MAMA expedition; found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

by Boeckh from the copy sent by Rosius, CIG 2759; by Leake, from Deering 22, from which LBW 1620d, Liermann, Analecta 20a, J. Frei, De certaminibus thymelicis (Basel, 1900), 77, no.14, Pickard-Cambridge, Festivals 2, 321, no.16b; translated by T.R.S. Broughton, Economic survey of Ancient Rome IV (Baltimore, 1938), 856-7. published by J. M. R. Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.420, whence discussed by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 60; published by Roueché, PPA 53

Photographs

Face (1977)

Representations

Deering notebook, page 6v