<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for anonymous, boy runner victor at the fifteenth Philemoniea

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels (0.99 x 0.40 x 0.37), chipped on all edges; there is a hole on the top for the attachment of a crowning feature

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. L.1 is inscribed on the upper moulding, but was not seen by earlier copyists; the text must have begun on the crowning feature.

Letters

Standard second-/third-century forms, 0.02. Apices: on Η, l.9.

Date

A.D. 226 (contests)

Edition τὸν δεῖνα στεφανωθέντα παίδων στάδιον τῷ ἐπιτελεσθέντι ἀγῶνι τῆς πεντεκαιδεκάτης τετραετηρίδος Ἀφρoδεισιήων Φιλημονιήων ἀγωνοθετούντων τῶν περὶ Ἰούλιον Αὐρήλιον Ζήλου ἀρχιερέως υἱὸν Χαρίδημον νεοποιῶν τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ποιησαμένου Ἰουλίου Κρατερου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
Apparatus

Line 17: the letter which earlier copyists read but we did not has been highlighted.

Translation

[- -], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the fifteenth four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Julius Aurelius Charidemos, son of Zelos, high-priest. Julius Krateros, his father, undertook the erection of the statue.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

City, Village: in the ruins of a house north east of the Tetrapylon, slightly west of the Water Channel area Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by H. P. Borrell, and perhaps also by Bailie; by Le Bas; by the NYU expedition in 1976 (excavation inventory no. 76.84, SBI 63).

Bibliography

Published, from Borrell's copy and possibly one of his own, by Bailie, no. 49; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW 596, whence Liermann, Analecta 25. Published by Roueché, PPA 83.

Photographs

Face (1976)