<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType"> honours</rs> for Hermias Glykon, his wife Apphia, and their daughter Apphia

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Two adjacent white marble blocks, with a moulding chipped away at the upper edge (2.10 × 0.79 × depth not measurable).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, in three adjacent columns; i. to the left, followed by ii., then iii. The text runs across the joins between the blocks.

Description of Letters

0.0175-0.02.

Date

First to second century A.D.

Edition
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἔθαψεν καὶ ἐτείμησεν ταῖς μεγίσταις τειμαῖς Ἑρμίαν Ἑρμίου τοῦ Φανίου Γλύκωνα ἄνδρα καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν γένους πρώτου καὶ συνεκτικότος τὴν πόλιν γυμνασίαρχον καὶ στεφανηφόρον τελέσαντα τὰς λειτουργίας πολυτελέστατα καὶ λαμπρότατα καὶ τὰς μεγίστας ἀρχὰς πάσας ἄρξαντα κατὰ τὸ κάλιστον sic τελέσαντα δὲ καὶ πρεσβείας ἄλλας τε πλείστας καὶ εἰς Ῥώμην καὶ καθόλου πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα πάσης ἀρετῆς βιώσαντα καθότι καὶ ἐφ′ ἑκάστῳ τούτων διὰ τῶν ἐψηφὶσμένων ἐτειμήθη
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἔθαψεν καὶ ἐτείμησεν Ἀπφίαν Μενεσθέως τοῦ Εὐμάχου γυναῖκα δὲ Ἑρμίου τοῦ Ἑρμίου Γλύκωνος γένους πρώτου καὶ ἐπισημοτάτου καὶ συνεκτικότος τὴν πόλιν καὶ αὐτὴν σωφροσύνῃ καὶ σεμνότητι διενένκασαν καὶ ζήσασαν ἀξίως τῶν τε προγόνων καὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς καθότι πολλάκις διὰ ψηφισμάτων ἐτειμήθη
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἔθαψεν καὶ ἐτείμησεν Ἀπφίαν Ἑρμίου τοῦ Ἑρμίου Γλύκωνος θυγατέρα σώφρονα καὶ κοσμίαν πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα πάσης ἐζηκυῖαν ἀρετῆς καθότι πολλάκις καὶ διὰ ψηφισμάτων ἐτειμήθη
Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze.

Translation

i. The Council and the People buried and honoured with the highest honours Hermias Glykon son of Hermias the son of Phanias, a fine and good man of a foremost family, and one which had shared in the foundation of the city. He had been gymnasiarch and stephanephoros and carried out liturgies most generously and splendidly, held all the highest offices in the finest manner and had carried out many embassies including ones to Rome, and to sum up lived with a view to displaying every virtue. For which reason he was honoured for each of these things in decrees.

ii. The Council and the People buried and decreed honours to Apphia daughter of Menestheus the son of Eumachos, wife of Hermias Glykon the son of Hermias, of a foremost and remarkable family, and one which shared in the foundation of the city. She was herself surpassing in prudence and distinction and lived worthily of her ancestors and her husband. For which reason she was often honoured in decrees.

iii. The Council and the People buried and decreed honours to Apphia daughter of Hermias Glykon son of Hermias, discreet and with due order, who lived with a view to demonstrating every virtue and was honoured in decrees.

Commentary

i-iii are discussed (as MAMA 469-71) by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, Appendix C, no. 3.

Locations

reused in the Walls, East (south part), retaining their original relationship to one another. Findspot (1973) uncertain: but it is possible that a funerary monument which included these blocks has been incorporated in the walls.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (17); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (inv?).

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 125-127, no. 52 ; from the MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 471 (i), 470 (ii), 469 (iii), whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 425, 426, 485 .

Photographs

Text i, face (1973)
Text ii, face (1973)