Description of Monument

A plain statue base shaft with recessed edges (h. 0.65, w. 0.335, d. 0.335) broken above and below.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The inscription was apparently left unfinished; but it is also possible that the carver started on the familiar formula τὴν δὲ ἀ[νάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ποιησαμένου κτλ, and then discovered that it was not required

Letters

standard second-/third-century forms, 0.025. Ligatures: ΗΜ, ΝΗ, l.5; ΝΝ, l.7; ΗΝ, l.10.

Date

c. 196 A.D.(contests)

Edition νεικήσαντα παίδων στάδι ον τῷ ἐπιτελεσ θέντι ἀγῶνι τῆς τρίτης τετραετηρίδος Ἀφροδεισιήων Φιλημονήων ἀγωνοθετούντων τῶν νεοποιῶν τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον Ἀντωνιον Ἀπελλᾶν Σεβηρεῖνον τὴν δὲ Α

Translation

[ - - ], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the third four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Marcus Antonius Apellas Severeinos. The ...]

Commentary

See Roueché, ad loc.

Locations

City, Water Channel area Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by Gaudin (105); by the MAMA expedition. Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (excavation inventory no. 64.238, SBI 14)

Bibliography

Published by Paris and Holleaux, no. 3, whence Liermann, Analecta 23. Cited by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no.145. Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.506, whence BullEp 1972.414, McCabe 344 . Published by Roueché, 81.

Photographs

Face (1978)