<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Apollonios the high-priest

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft (0.56 × 1.18 × 0.48) with moulded panels on all four sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the front panel. l. 1 is cut on the upper moulding. The text must have begun on an upper feature, now lost.

Description of Letters

ll. 1-18, 0.0275; ll. 19ff, 0.03. Ligatures: l.3, ΝΕ; l.6, ΜΜ; l.15, ΗΚ; l.18, 20, ΗΝ. Omicron in l. 20 cut small.

Date

Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature).

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Ἀπολλωνίου ἀρχιερέα ταμίαν πρωτονεοποιὸν πρῶτον ἄρχοντα δὶς γραμματέα τοῦ δήμου δὶς βούλαρχον καὶ τὰς ἄλλας πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λειτουργίας ἐνδόξως ἀπὸ προγόνων ἐκτετελεκότα ἄνδρα πρᾶον καὶ ἐπιεικῆ καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν φιλότειμον περὶ τὴν πατρίδα ἐπιμελησαμένου Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ζηνοβίου Εἰάσονος ἀρχιε ρέως τοῦ γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze.

Translation

So and so honoured so and so, son/descendant of Apollonios, high-priest, treasurer, chief temple-builder, twice chief archon, twice secretary of the People, chief councillor, who has also carried out all the other offices and liturgies honourably in a manner inherited from his forefathers; a kind man and moderate and generous in all matters concerning his fatherland.

Marcus Aurelius Zenobios Jason, high-priest, his brother-in-law son-in-law, took responsibility for putting up the monument.

Commentary

The honouring body or bodies were presumably named on a base capital. It is not entirely clear which of the last three offices the honorand performed twice.

Locations

Walls, South-east gate: Below modern ground level, east of the gate, with 13.304 (= Reinach 190). Unknown. Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by K&R (KIII.32) who did not see l. 1; by Gaudin (15); by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.184; SBI 30)

Bibliography

Published by K&R, Anz Akad Wien, no. 9; from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, 77, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 338; cited from Reinach by Oikonomos, Arch Delt 1921/22, 294.

Photographs

Face (1985)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 32