Description of Monument

Fragment from the right side of a white marble block (0.315 × 0.28 × 0.305).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Letters

0.02.

Date

mid first century A.D (prosopography, spelling)

Edition νθεωνος τοῦ Παπίαν τὸν καὶ ππον ἀνέσστησεν Ἀθηναγορας Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Εὐμάχου τοῦ Διογένους τοῦ τοῦ ωνος

Apparatus

Line 1, νοσ. But the nu could be the final letter of the honorand's first name, and if so ΘΕ could begin his patronymic.

Line 2 carries on his genealogy, which ended only in l. 3, and was followed by a second persoanl name.

Line 3 then indicates that he was also known in some other way, set out in line 4, ending, on the face of it, in a name (?or description) which referred to horses.

Line 5 presumably contained a word describing the monument, between the verb and the name of Athenagoras, who erected it.

Line 6: Athenagoras' gradfather's name can be supplied from 1.4.

Line 7: we do not know the names of Athenagoras' ancestors this far back.

Translation

[So-and-so honoured . .? . . ] Papias also known as [ . . ? . . -]ppos (e.g. Philippos). Athenagoras son of Athenagoras [son of Eumachos] son of Diogenes son of [ . . ? . . ] son of [ . . .-]on set up [?a statue].

Commentary

The Athenagoras of l. 5 ff. is almost certainly the father of the dedicator of columns in the Temple of Aphrodite (1.4, 1.5, 1.6). Too little of the honorands naem survives for identification at present, although Papias is a name that occurs among the first families of the city (see Name Index).

The double sigma in line 4 is paralleled by use of a numneber of doubled letters in other texts - a feature which occurs notably in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

Locations

Unknown Walls, south (west part): southern stretch, a little west of 12.918 (=MAMA 573) Findspot (1961)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition (Walls 7)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

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