l. 11: ΛΗΛΕΟΥΤ Sherard; λ[ε]λ[ιτ]ου[ρ Boeckh; correct in ΜΑΜΑ
l. 12 ΖΗΣΙΝΚΑΙ Sherard, ζής[α]ν[τα κοσμίως] καὶ Boeckh; correct in ΜΑΜΑ
l. 17: [θεν] Boeckh, but the MAMA text shows nu as omitted. delta read by Doublet and Deschaps.
l. 18: κ[λήρους Boeckh. MAMA; but the closely parallel text for the honorands brother appears to refer to gymnasiarchies and stephanephorates here.
Lines 19-20, read by Doublet and Deschamps, were not included in the MAMA text, and not recorded by Reynolds. If εἰσηγησαμένου is correct (it is certainly plausible) there is no room for many letters after ΔΟ. Very tentatively I suggest τὸ / δό[γμα εἰσηγησ]αμένου.
The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the first and greatest honours Demetrios son of Pyrrhos Papias the son of Zenon the son of Pyrrhos the son of Zenon, of a first and honoured family and one which has undertaken the most important liturgies; he lived as a boy discreetly and died while still a youth; his whole property came to the People to provide perpetual allocations by lot. The decree was put to the vote by Metrodoros son of Metrodoros the son of ?Dionysios.
Commentary
See further under 13.6 (=MAMA 481+Reinach 74) and 13.7 (=Reinach 73), which refer to other members of the same family. All the stones in this group may (but need not) have carried statues; whether or not, all may have come from the same family tomb, but could have been once placed together in a public place, e.g. the meeting place of the Gerousia. The family was clearly wealthy as well as distinguished. The deceased further seems to have foreseen its extinction and hoped to establish its memory by providing for its property to go to the People to fund public services. Since a number of Roman gifts to the city provided for allocations of small sums to lot-selected groups all earlier editors have restored κλήρους in l. 18 and
MAMA reckoned that part of the initial kappa survived (which, however, Reynolds doubts). The discovery that the funding of gymnasiarchies and stephanephoriates was what Demetrios' brother Pyrrhos prescribed in line with his father's will (see 13.7 =Reinach 73), it is at least open to question whether we should not restore them here.
The establishment of funds of this type is documented by Laum (earlier by Ziebarth) who used the Aphrodisian evidence. It was a particularly prominent feature in the second century A.D., falling off in the third. Clearly donations of this type were to some extent a substitute for gifts of public buildings and should remind us that reduction of attested donors of public buildings is not necessarily indicative of a reduction either in a city's prosperity or in the existence of public benefactors.
The possible reference to the introduction of the honorary decree (?to the Council, ?to the Assembly of the People) is not usual. The introducer is perhaps to be taken as a member of the family of Metrodoros Demetrios son of Metrodoros (see 13.301 = ΜΑΜΑ 472+473).
Locations
Walls, North: 'n.e. wall upside down' (Sherard); seen in 1973 in the north wall of the StadiumUnknown, Necropolis, NorthFindspot (1973)
History of Recording
Ll. 1-18 recorded by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 125v); recorded by Gaudin (98); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973.
Bibliography
Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2775 whence Laum, no. 105; reference in Ziebarth's discussion of funds, ZVRW 16, 1903, 292, no. 63; ll. 19-20 published by Doublet/Deschamps, BCH 14 (1890), p. 613, no. 13; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 121, no. 48; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 482, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias265.