<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for M. Aurelius Ariston; establishment of a <rs type="textType">foundation</rs> by Aurelia Ammia

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

i: Lines 1-2 are on a large statue base capital (0.55 plus moulding 0.24 x 0.43 x 0.625 with the upper moulding broken away, and broken below. ii: Lines 3 ff are 'on a square marble, with moulding, on ye ground' (Sherard); a white marble statue base, at least 1 m. high, of which three fragments survive. a: ll.1-4; upper edge remains, with moulding, very chipped (0.10 × 0.22 × 0.30). b: ll.13-20; no edges (0.105 × 0.255 × 0.19). c: ll.20-26; no edges (0.10 × 0.28 × 0.15).

Description of Text

i. inscribed in two lines along the lower fascia. The text must have begun on a fascia of the upper moulding. ii. inscribed on one face.

Letters

l. 1, 0.03; l. 2, 0.025; ll.3 ff., 0.02-0.025. Ligatures: ΠΠ ll.4, 10, ΤΕ l.5, ΝΕ l.14, ΤΗ l.25, ΝΗ l.26.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)

Edition e.g. κατὰ τὰ ἐψηφισμένα ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ δήμου Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Ἀρίστωνα πεντάκι τοῦ Ἀρτεμι δώρου Μενίππου ἄν δρα τῶν ἐν τέλει πα τρὸς καὶ προγόνων ἀρχικῶν καὶ λιτουργῶν ἔκγονον Ἀρίστωνος τρὶς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου Μενίππου γυμνασιάρ χου ζήσαντα κοσμί ως καὶ αἰδημόνως πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρέτης ἐπαινεθέν τα δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ αἷς ἐ ποιήσατο ἀρχαῖς τε καὶ λειτουργίαις Αὐρηλία Ἀμμία Ζήνωνος δ τοῦ Χρυσίππου τὸν ἑαυτῆς υἱ όν ἥτις καὶ ἀνέθη κεν τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους ἀργυρίου βτο καθως διὰ τῆς γενομένης ὑπὸ αὐτῆς ἀναθέσε ως δηλοῦται
Apparatus

The letters read by us are highlighted.

ll.4, 10:ΜΕΝΙΠΠΙΟΥ Sherard, presumably misreading a ligature (certainly in 4)

l. 5, ΕΝΕΛΕΙ, Sherard, again misreading the ligature

l. 9, ΔΟΡΟΥ Sherard, ΔΩΡΟΥ Boeckh

l. 17, ΛΕΙΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ Sherard; ΛΕΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ, whence λε[ι]του[ρ]γίαις Boeckh

l. 19, Δ Sherard; Α, whence [δ´], Boeckh

l. 22, ΙΕΡΑ Sherard

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

The man honoured is presumably the brother of M. Aurelius Attalos (15.321 [=LBW 1609a])

Locations

Unknown Walls, South-east: i: half buried along the south face of the south-east stretch; ii apparently in or near the south-east stretch; fragments later found b in the wall of a house, a and c during the clearing of the Theatre. The capital is still in situ; the base fragments are now in the Museum.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; publications.

History of Recording

ii was copied, complete, by Sherard (BM Add. 10101, 14) and Picenini (10102, 25v, and, from Tisser, 75v) in 1705. Fragment b recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel in 1893 (no notebook record); recorded by the MAMA expedition (see Cormack, Notes 10 and 56, and MAMA 8. 491). a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition (no number, 69.318 and 69.323). i was first recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Lines 3 ff. published by Boeckh from Sherard papers, CIG 2774, whence Liermann, Analecta, 53, IX, Ziebarch, Zeitschift fergl. Rechtswissenschaft 16 (1903), 291-2, nos. 60 and 63, Laum, Stiftungen 104, and by Cormack, MAMA 491 and Notes on the Inscribed Monuments 10, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 340

Photographs

i, face (1989)
i, showing right side (1983)
ii: a (1977)
ii: b (1977)
ii: c (1977)