Description of Monument

Apparently a statue base shaft (0.69 x 0.22), perhaps (but not certainly) in two pieces.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

standard second/third century forms, 0.18. Ligatures: ΤΗ, l.5; ?ΤΗ, l.11; ΤΗ, l.12; ΝΗ, l.16.

Date

c. 241 (contests)

Edition παῖδα τῶν εὖ γεγονότων νείκησαντα ἐνδόξως παίδων πυγμὴν ἐν ἀγῶνι τὴς Ἀφροδεισιήων Φιλημον 5 ιήων εἰκοστῆς τετραετηρίδος ἀγωνοθετουντος Τιβερί ου Κλαυδίου υἱου Ἀπολλωνίου Μαρκιανοῦ Ἀσιαρχου καὶ ἀρχιερέως τῆς πατρίδος προνοησαμένων τῶν τῆς ἐπιφανεστάτης θεᾶς Ἀφροδείτης νεοποιῶν τῶν περὶ Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Ἰούλιον Κάνδ ιδον Ἡγεμονέα Ἀσίας ἀρχιε ρέων καὶ ἀρχιερέων υἱὸν καὶ ἔκ γονον συνγενη Α ἀρχ ινεωποιὸν Ι χόμενο Ι ΕΝ κεφαλ καθὼς καὶ ΤΟΙτοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου Αἰλίου ΑΙ ΠΡΕ

Translation

[ ?The Council honoured so-and-so], boy [?of good family] who won [?with distinction] the boys' boxing [at the contest of the] twentieth [four-year occurrence of the] Aphrodeisiea [Philemoniea] when the contest-president was [Tiberius] Claudius [son of so-and-so] Apollonios Markianos [......], Asiarch [and high-priest of] his country; [(the erection of the monument) was overseen by the neopoioi] of the most manifest [goddess] Aphrodite led by the [chief] neopoios, Tiberius Claudius Hegemoneus [son of Julius Kandidos, son and grandson of high-priests of Asia] and of high-priests, kinsman [of consulars - -] ?capital sum [ - -?as - - ] the most renowned[ - - -] Aelius A[ - -

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

City, Village: 'In a wine-press to the south'. Unknown Findspot (1893)

Text Constituted From

Notebooks, publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel (K.III.33; Abklatsch 78); not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published, from Kubitschek's records, by J. M. R. Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964). Published by Roueché, PPA 86.

Photographs

No photographs

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 33