<rs type="textType">Posthumous <rs type="textType">honours</rs></rs> for M. Fl. Antonius Lysimachos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Upper part of a white marble base without moulding (0.48 × 0.42 × 0.38).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

0.03-0.325; ΗΝ in ligature, ll. 3, 7

Date

II-III, ?after 181 (contests).

Edition e.g. ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Μᾶρκον Φλάβιον Ἀντώνιον Λυσίμαχον σοφιστὴν ἀρχιερέα γυμνασίαρχον στεφανηφόρον νεοποιὸν ἀγωνοθέτην δι' αἰῶνος Λυσιμαχήων ἀγώνων ἀγωνοθεσίας Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Ἐπινείκου
Apparatus

l. 1, Η Sherard 1705, ΤΙ Picenini; I Sherard 1716; Μ added in pencil in Deering's copy. Traces of two uprights now visible.

ll. 9-12 were read with some difficulty by Sherard, but more clearly by Deering; by 1904 they were lost.

l.11, At the beginning ΚΑΙ Picenini, ΚΟΥ Sherard 1705, ΝΑΠΟΥ 1716; ΜΑΡΧΟΥ Deering.

Translation

[? Public bodies honoured ] M(arcus) Fl(avius) Antonius Lysimachos, sophistes, high priest, gymnasiarch, stephanephorus, neopoios, contest-president in perpetuity of the Lysimachean contests: in the year when Marcus Antonius Epineikos was contest-president.

Commentary

This text is obviously later than the establishment of the contest, but not more precisely dateable. M. Fl. Antonius Lysimachos must have been closely connected with Flavius Lysimachos, the founder of the Lysimachea (12.538 and 11.21); he is also honoured in a fragmentary text, 11.513 (=Reinach 63). The fact that Antonius Lysimachos is named as 'contest-president in perpetuity' (l.6) while the inscription also refers to a current contest-presidency (l.10-) implies that he had given money for a foundation to provide perpetual funding for the contest-presidency (see L. Robert, Documents de l'Asie Mineure méridionale (Paris, 1966), 83-5). Epineikos (a name not otherwise attested at Aphrodisias) was presumably carrying out the practical duties (compare 13.616).

For this contest see Roueché PPA 174ff.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): re-used just north of the South-east Gate, on the inside, and north of 12.326 (=MAMA 451) Unknown Findspot (1975)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Sherard papers; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze.

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102 18 and, from Tisser, 53v) whence Sherard (1010, 16) and in 1716 by Sherard (10101, 121); copied by Deering (f. 2v, no. 9); recorded by Gaudin (163); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2785, whence Liermann 116-117, no. 20b; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 134, no. 64; published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 501, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 318; published by Roueché, PPA 54

Photographs

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Representations

Deering page 2v