Description of Monument

A plain white marble statue base shaft (0.84 x 0.465 x 0.50) without moulding, broken above; the right side has been damaged since it was recorded by Loew and Gaudin.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the text must have started on a crowning feature

Letters

standard second-/third-century forms, 0.015; diaeresis on last I, l.5; ligatures: ΝΒ, l.7, ΗΜ, l.8, ΝΚ, ΝΕ, l.9, ΝΕ, l.10, ΜΕ, ΗΝ, l.14, ΝΗΜΕ, ΝΗΝ, l.15, ΜΕ, l.17, ΝΗΜ, l.20, ΗΝΕ, ΝΚ, ΝΕ, l.21, ΝΚ, l.22, ΤΗΝ, l.24, ΜΕ, l.25, ΝΚ, ΗΜΗ, l.27, ΗΚ, l.29, ΗΝ, l.31, ΝΗ, l.32.

Date

117-138 (reign)

Edition ιτοξ ι ἔδοξεν τῇ ἱερᾷ ξυστικῇ πε ριπολιστικῇ εὐσεβεῖ σεβαστῇ συνόδῳ καὶ τῷ σύνπαντι ξυστῷ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα καὶ αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Τραιανὸν Ἁδρι ανὸν Σεβαστὸν διαπέμψασθαι τόδε τὸ ψήφισμα τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ Ἀφροδεισιέων βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ ἐπεὶ Καλλικράτης Διογένους Ἀφρο Ω πανκρατιαστὴς ἱερονείκης πλειστονείκης ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡλικίας εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς τῆς ἀρετῆς τραπεὶς ἱδρῶσι καὶ πόνοις ἐκτήσατο τὴν εὐκλεῆ δόξαν τητός τε παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης γείνεται διά τε τὴν ὁλόκληρον αὐτῷ πεφιλοπονημένην σοφίαν σωματι γὰρ ὑπερβάλων ἅπαντας ἀρχαίους ἐθαυμάσθη τὴν φύσιν ψυχῆς τε ἐπιμελούμενος ἐμακαρίζετο τὸν τρόπον ὧν ἕνεκα ἁπάντων πρὸς τὸ ὑπερβάλλον τῆς δόξης ἑρπύσας ὁ βάσκα νος φθόνος τὸ κοινὸν ἡμῶν ἀγαθὸν νεμεσήσας ἀπήνεγκεν ἐνειρείσας εἰς μέρη τοῦ σώματος τὰ εὐχρηστότατα πανκρατιασταῖς τοὺςμους διὸ ἔδοξεν τύχῃ τῇ ἀγαθῇ αἰτήσασθαι τὴν Ἀφροδεισιέων πόλιν τόπους ἐπιτη δείους ὅπως ποιησώμεθα τοῦ μεγάλου ἱερονείκου εἰκόνων ἀναθέσεις καὶ ἀνδρειάντος ἀνάστασιν καθὰ καὶ ἐν τῇ μητροπόλει τῆς Ἀσίας Ἐφέσῳ ἐχουσῶν τῶν τειμῶν ἐπιγραφὰς τὰς προσηκούσας τῷ Καλλικράτει, ἵνα διὰ τούτου τοῦ ψηφίσματος τὸ βαρύθυμον πρὸς εἱμαρμένην ἀπαραίτητον αἱ τῶν τειμῶν χάριτες εὐπαρηγόρητον ἡμεῖν τὸν συν αθλητὴν καταστήσωσιν

Apparatus

l. 1, Not in Franz; ]ΤΟ[ M., W.

l.5 was omitted by Franz, and so ll.4 and 6 were incorrectly restored; τ[ὸν Ἡρακλέα is Robert's supplement.

l. 9, [Δ]ΕΙΣ Franz, M., W. Final supplement by Robert.

ll.12/13: [ἐπιζή]τητος cj. Cormack, [εὐαρεσ]τητός cj. Merkelbach.

l. 13, Final supplement by Cormack.

l. 16, ὑπερβάλλων all previous editors; ὑπερβαλῶν lapis.

ll.16/17: [τὴν φύ]σιν Franz, etc., Robert, Wankel; [παρὰ πᾶ]σιν Cormack.

Translation

- ] It was resolved by the sacred xystic travelling reverent august synod and the whole xystus under [Herakles] and the emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, to send this decree to the most sacred Council and the People of the Aphrodisians. Since Kallikrates, son of Diogenes, from Aphrodisias, pancratiast, sacred victor, [multiple] (10) victor, who from his earliest youth having turned to the ways of virtue, obtained by sweat and labour his noble reputation, and came to be [?admired] by all men throughout the inhabited world for the complete wisdom which he obtained by his labours; for, having excelled all the ancients in his physique, he was admired [for his physique], and, taking care of his soul, he was congratulated on his conduct. On account of all these things malign (20) Envy crept towards his outstanding reputation and, begrudging our common good, removed it, bearing down on the part of the body most useful to pancratiasts, the shoulders. For this reason it was resolved, with good fortune, to request the city of the Aphrodisians for suitable locations, so that we might make offerings of images of the great sacred victor and put up a statue, as (we have done) also in the metropolis of Asia, Ephesos, the honorific images having inscriptions appropriate to Kallikrates, (30) in order that through this decree, in his heaviness of heart at an inexorable destiny, the gracious gift of the honours may make our fellow-athlete well consoled.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Walls, South (west part): lying just south of the walls. Unknown Findspot.

Text Constituted From

Publications; notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Copied by Loew. Part (lines 14-33, right end) recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel (RI, 45; Abklatsch 55);recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition. Recorded by H. Wankel, and by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Loew by Franz, p. 112, no. b.4, whence LBW 1620, Liermann, Analecta 13, Lüders, no.96. Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records and Reichel's record, MAMA VIII.417, revised by Robert, Hell. XIII, 134-47. Observations by R. Merkelbach, ZPE 6 (1970), 47-9 (on which BullÉp 1971.614), ZPE 13 (1974), 276 (on which BullÉp 1974.535), 31 (1978), 134 (on which BullÉp 1979.447). Published by H. Wankel, . Ia, no.11; by Roueché, PPA 89

Photographs

Face (1973)

Face (1983)

Representations

Lines 14-33: Reichel notebook I, 45