Description of Monument

A plain white marble statue base shaft (1.18 x 0.545 x 0.67); the block is damaged above but the upper edge survives.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the opening formula must have been inscribed on a crowning feature.

Letters

letters standard second-/third-century forms, 0.018-0.02.

Date

Early third century, after A.D. 211 (contests)

Edition e.g. ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία καὶ οἱ νέοι ἐτείμησαν Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον ΟΝ Τειμοκλέους τοῦ Ἀγαθόποδος τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου Ἀφροδεισιέα καὶ Νεικομηδέα καὶ Ἀνκυρανὸν βουλευτὴν δολιχαδρόμον ἱερονείκην πύθιονείκην, Ἀκτιονείκην παράδοξον νεικήσαντα δὲ καὶ ἄλλους ἀγῶνας τοὺς ὑπογεγραμμένους ἐν Ἀνκύρᾳ τῆς Γαλατίας ΕΙΣ Ἀσκλήπειον παίδων δόλιχ ο ν ἐ ν Ἁδριανήᾳ τῆς Βειθυνίας ἱερ ὸ ν Ἁδριάνειον Ἀντινόειον παίδων δόλιχον ἐν Ἡρακλεί ᾳ τῇ πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ Ἁδριάνηον Ἡράκλειον ἰσάκτιον παί δων δόλιχον ἐν Χαλκηδό νι παίδων δόλιχον κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς ἀνδρῶν δόλιχο ν ἐν Νεικομηδείᾳ Αὐγούστεια Σεβήρεια ἀνδρῶν δόλι χον τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ δίαυ λον ὅπλον ἐν Νεικέᾳ Αὐ γούστειον ἀνδρῶν δόλι χον ἐν ν Ἡρακλείᾳ τῇ πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ Ἁδριάνειον Ἡ ρ άκλειον ἰσάκτιον ἀνδρῶν δόλιχον τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὅπλον ἐν Νεικέᾳ Αὐ γ ούστειον ἀνδρῶν δόλι χον τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ δίαυλον ὅπλον ἐν Φιλαδελφείᾳ κοι νὸν Ἀσίας ἀνδρῶν δόλι χον προνοησαμένου τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος Ἀντιδωρίδου τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἱεροῦ θεᾶς Ἀφροδείτης τοῦ συντρόφου αὐτοῦ

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were seen by earlier copyists but not by us

Translation

[ e.g. The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men] honoured Marcus Aurelius [ -]us, son of Teimokles son of Agathopous son of Artemidoros, (citizen) of Aphrodisias and of Nicomedia and of Ancyra, councillor, long-distance runner, sacred victor, Pythian victor, Actian victor, extraordinary, who also won other contests, those written below:

In Ancyra of Galatia, at the Asclepeia [...] the boys' long race; in Hadrianea of Bithynia, at the sacred Hadrianeia Antinoeia, the boys' long race; in Heraclea on the Pontus, at the Hadrianeia Heracleia, equivalent to Actia, the boys' long race; in Chalcedon the boys' long race, and in succession the men's long race; in Nicomedia, at the Augusteia Severeia, the men's long race, and on the same day the double race and the race in armour; in Nicaea, at the Augusteia, the men's long race; in Heraclea on the Pontus, at the Hadrianeia Heracleia, equivalent to Actia, the men's long race, and on the same day the race in armour; in Nicaea, at the Augusteia, the men's long race, and on the same day the double race and the race in armour; in Philadelphia, at the provincial festival of Asia, the men's long race.

The erection of the statue was overseen by Antidorides, the man consecrated to the goddess Aphrodite, who was reared with him.

Commentary

For a full commentary on the various contests see Liermann, and Moretti loci cit. For discussion, see Roueché, PPA, on no 70.

Locations

Walls, East (North part): on the inner side, near 12.202 Unknown Findspot (date)

Text Constituted From

Publications; notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by Kubitschek and Reichel (not in notebooks); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Paris and Holleaux, no. 1, whence Liermann, Analecta 28, Moretti, IAG 80; by J. M. R. Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII. 521, whence McCabe 261; by Roueché, PPA 70.

Photographs

Face (1976)