<rs type="textType">Decree</rs> of <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Aristokles Molossos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A text in four parts, apparently on three or four blocks. Measurements of a. given by Kubitschek: (0.53 x 0.78 x 0.19; of c. given by Anthopoulos (0.46 x 0.79 x 0.12) and Reichel ( 0.40 x 0.37 x 0.08).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, in columns.

Letters

0.015-0.02. Lunate omega, square and lunate sigma

Date

First century A.D. (content)

Edition
ἐπὶ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ὑψικλέους εἰσηγησαμένου Ἑρμᾶ τοῦ Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου Μολοσσοῦ φιλοκαίσαρος ἔδοξεν τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ γνώμη στρατηγῶν καὶ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Μύωνος Παπίωνος ἱερέως θεᾶς Σεβαστῆς Ἰουλίας γραμματέως δήμου καὶ Περίτου τοῦ Διονυσίου φύσει δὲ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου καὶ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ἄνδρωνος φύσει δὲ Ἀττάλου Καλλίππου τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγῶν ἐπεὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου Μολοσσὸς ἐκτενεστάτας μὲν
καὶ λαμπροτάτας φιλοδοξίας καὶ διαδόσεις καὶ λειτουργίας ἐποήσατο εἰς τὴν πόλιν sic ἡμῶν ὃν ἔζη χρόνον τὸ δὲ περὶ αὑτὸν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα φιλότειμον ἐνδεικνύμενος καὶ προκρείνων παντὸς οὐδὲ ἐν τοῖς τῆς μεταλλαγῆς χρόνοις ἤλλα ξεν τὸ φιλόπατρι βούλημα ἔγραψεν δὲ δὲ διαθήκας σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις οἷς εἰς τὴν πατρίδα ἀπέλιπεν διατασσόμενος καὶ ἀργυρικὰς διαδόσεις τοῖς πολείταις καθ' ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκ τῶν προσόδων ὧν ἀπέλιπεν ἀγρῶν εἰς τὸ σὺν τοῖς λοιποῖς οἷς ἐφιλοδόξησεν ζῶν καὶ φιλοδοξεῖται διὰ τῶν κατασσκευαζομένων ἐκ τοῦ βίου αὐ τοῦ ἀναθημάτων ἀειμνημόνευτον καὶ ἐκ τούτων εἶναι τὸ φιλόπολι αὐτοῦ βούλημα ἀνανκαῖον δέ ἐστιν ὡς ὅτι μάλιστα φυλάσσεσθαι τὰς ἐν πᾶσι
διαταγὰς αὐτοῦ διὸ δεδόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῇ δήμῳ τελεῖσθαι ἐπάνανκεσ ἀεὶ ὑφ' ὧν ἡ διαθήκη αὐτοῦ περιέχει τὰς ἀργυρικὰς διαδόσεις ἐν αἷς ὥρισεν προθεσμίαις τῆς μὲν ἀναγραφῆς γεινομένησ τῶν κατακλιθέντων ἐν ταῖς προθεσμίαισ τῶν δὲ διαδόσεων ἀεὶ τῇ ἐχομένῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπὸ ἡλίου ἀνατολῆς ἀποδιδομένων ἐὰν δέ τις τῶν ὀφειλόντων πρᾶξαι τὸ ἀργύριον μὴ πράξῃ ἢ μὴ ποήσηται τὴν διάδοσιν ὡς προγέγραπται, ἀποτείσατω ἰερα Ἀφροδείτῃ δηνάρια τρισχειλια ἃ καὶ πράσσεσθαι ἐπάνανκες ὑπὸ τοῦ βουλομένου τῶν πολειτῶν ἐπὶ τρίτῳ μέρει· ὁμοίως δὲ μηδενὶ ἐξέστω μήτε ἄρχοντι μήτε γραμματεῖ μήτε
ἰδιώτῃ μεταγαγεῖν εἰς ἕτερον πρᾶγμα τὸ τῶνδε δόσεων ἀργύριον μήτ ε μέρος χωρεῖν δὲ αὐτὸ εἰς τὰσ δόςεις καθὼς ἡ Μολοσσοῦ διαθήκη περι έχει ἐὰν δέ τις μεταγάγῃ ᾡτινι τρόπῳ ἔνοχος ἔστω τοῖς ὡρισμένοισ διὰ τῆς Μολοσσοῦ διαθήκης προστείμ οις ἅ ἐστιν δηνάρια μυρία αἱ δὲ προθεσμίαι τῶν δόσεων ἡ α μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ ιθ ἡ β ἐπὶ τῶν θερινῶν πρώτων θεωριῶν ἡ γ μηνὸς Ὑπερβερεταίου ιθ
Apparatus

Deering: 3 or four letters broken off from the left hand edge; this and the three former on similar stones apparently part of a Building and all written in the same character.

b. l. 1, ΛΑΜ Deering, ΛΑΝ Henzen

b. l. 8, ΔΕΔΙΑ Deering, Henzen

b. l. 11, ΟΔΩΝΩΝΑΠΕ Deering; ΟΔΩΝΑΠΕ Henzen

b. l. 12, ΤΟΣΥΝ Deering, Henzen. At end, ΟΙΕΦΙ Deering, Henzen

b. l. 13, ΔΙΛΤΟΝ Henzen ΔΙΑΤΩΝ Deering

b. l. 14, ΚΑΤΑΣΣΚΕΥ Deering, Henzen

b. l. 18, ΦΙΛΙΣΣΕΣΘΑΙ Deering, ΦΥΛΙΣΕΣΘΛΙ Henzen

c. l. 10, ΠΟΙΗΣΗΤΑΙ W (transcription); ποήσηται (W, text); ΠΟΗΣΗΤΑΙ Deering, Wood, Anthopoulos

c. l. 12, ΧΕΙΛΙΛΑ Deering

d. only seen by Deering

d. l. 2, ΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΙ ΜΗ

d. l. 4, ΔΙΑΘΗΝ

d. l. 5, ΑΓΑΓΕ

d. l. 9, ΣΕΩΝΑΜΗΝ

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Walls, South-west: the only location—on the south western walls—given by Falkener; a fragment seen by Anthopoulos and Reichel at Pirlibey. Not found again. Unknown Findspots (1844, 1874, 1893)

Text Constituted From

Notebooks; publications.

History of Recording

a. seen by Wood (14 p.46); A-D copied in 1813 by Deering (p. 10v-11v, no. 37); b. was squeezed (in two parts) by Fellows, but no text published, see 60 & 61; a.-c. copied by Falkener; b. and c. copied by Loew; c. copied at Aphrodisias by Waddington in 1850 and at ; d. copied at Pirlibey in 1872, by K. G. Anthopoulos and in 1893 by Reichel (R.I.3); a., severely damaged in re-use, copied at Aphrodisias by Kubitschek (KIII.20).

Bibliography

a.-d. published by Leake, from Deering, no. 14. b. mentioned by Fellows 60 & 61; A-C by Henzen, from Falkener, no. 5; b. and c. by Franz, from Loew, b.3; a.-d. by Waddington, LBW 1611. c. by K. G. Anthopoulos, Homeros III (1875) 80, whence Papadopoulos, Ath.Mitt. (1880) 340 no. 12, and cf. L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 114; cf Cormack, Notes, from notebooks, fig. 13. From these published by Laum, no.100, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 32 . Discussed: Liermann p.24, Wilhelm, Neue Beiträge II, 49, L. Robert, Rev. de Phil. (1930) 27 n.1, Bull. Ep. 1953.187, whence SEG 13, 491, SEG 1980.1244.

Representations

a. Wood, notebook 14.46
a. and b. Deering, page 11
b. and c. Deering, page 10v
d. Deering, page 11v
a. Kubitschek notebook III, 20
d. Reichel notebook I, 3