Description of Monument

White marble base without moulding (0.54 × 1.095 × 0.54) chipped above, and damaged at the lower right side.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

l.1, 0.0275; ll. 2 ff., 0.015–0.0175.

Date

First century A.D. (prosopography)

Edition οἱ νέοι ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις καὶ πρώταις τειμαῖς Ἄδραστον Νεικοτείμου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ζήνωνος Ἱέρακος υἱὸν νέων ἄνδρα μέγαν φιλόπατριν καὶ φιλοπολείτην καὶ εὐεργέτην καὶ κτίστην γεγονότα διὰ προγόνων τοῦ δήμου ἀρχιερατεύσαντα τῶν Σεβαστῶν γυμνασιαρχήσαντα δὶς δρακτοῖς ἐλαίοις ἐπιρύτοις ἀνελλιπῶς στεφανηφορήσαντα δίς ἀγωνοθετήσαντα τρίς ἀγορανομήσαντα τετράκις κτίστην πρεσβεύσαντα πλεονάκις ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος γενόμενον ἔκδικον δημοσίων πραγμάτων πεποιημένον ἑστιάσεις καὶ ἐπιδόσεις ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων πολυτελεῖς διά τε τὴν πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα διηνεκῆεὔνοιαν καὶ διὰ τὴν πρὸς τοὺς νέους φιλάγαθον διάθεσιν ζῶντα πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆςτὴν δὲ ἀνάθεσιν τοῦ ἀγάλματος πεποιῆσθαι τοὺς νέους ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιμεληθέντος Ἑρμογένους τοῦ Ὑψικλέους φύσει δὲ Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ γραμματεως τῶν νέων ἐργεπιστατήσαντος Πανφίλου τοῦ Ἀρτέμωνος Κροκίωνος

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Publications; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze.

Apparatus

Letters read by Deering at the beginning of lines 16, 24 and 25, and the ends of lines 11, 13 and 15 onwards were no longer visible by 1934, and few more have become illegible: letters recorded by Deering but no longer legible are highlighted.

Translation

The neoi honoured with the finest, greatest and foremost honours Adrastos, son of Neikoteimos Hierax, the son of Artemidoros the son of Zenon, Son of the Neoi, a great man who loved his fatherland and his city, both a benefactor and a founder of the People through the tradition of his ancestors. He was high priest of the emperors, gymnasiarch twice, providing a continuous and abundant flow of olive oil, stephanephoros twice, contest-president three times, market overseer four times, a founder; he acted as ambassador for his fatherland on many occasions. He was an advocate of the affairs of the people and gave costly feasts and contributions from his own funds because of the constant good will he bore to the fatherland and because of his kindly disposition toward the neoi. He lived as a model of excellence.

The erection of the statue was undertaken by the Neoi from their own funds, under the supervision of Hermogenes, son of Hypsikles, by birth son of Hermes, the secretary of the Neoi, and the management of Pamphilos Krokion, son of Artemon.

(Translated Smith, modified Roueché)

Commentary

See the discussion by Smith, loc. cit.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): fallen, in the stretch just north of the South-east Gate, east of 12.325 , 12.326. Unknown Findspot (1973)

History of Recording

Recorded by Deering (4v-5, no. 18); by Gaudin (162); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Leake, from Deering, TRSL 1843, 235 and 290-291, no. 6 whence Waddington, LBW 1602a, Liermann 101-102, no. 19; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 113-114, no. 33; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 484, whence McCabe 222. Published by Smith, , p.22.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Deering notebook, page 4v

Deering notebook, page 5

Gaudin squeeze