Description of Monument

Two pieces from the left side of a white marble statue base shaft apparently without moulding. a: lines 1-13, (0.29 × 0.65 × 0.14), upper left corner complete; b: lines 11-27, (0.29 × 0.80 × 0.12), left edge survives in part, although much chipped.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.025-0.03. Ligatures: ΗΜ, l.18; ΗΝ, ll.23, 24; ΝΜ, l.25; ΜΗ, l.27-

Date

Late second/early third century A.D. (lettering, nomenclature, family history, )

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν ταῖς πρώταις καὶ μεγίσταις τειμαῖς Πύρρον Πύρρου τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Πύρρου Παπίαν γένους πρώτου καὶ ἐνδόξου καὶ τὰς μεγίστας λιτουργίας λελιτουργηκότος ζήσαντα ἐν παιδείᾳσωφροσύνῃ τελευ τήσαντα ἐτὶ νέονοὗ καὶ ἡ οὐσία πᾶσα ἐλήλυθεν εἰς τὸν δῆμον εἰς αἰωνίους γυμνασιαρχίας καὶ στεφανηφορίας κατὰ τὴν γενομένηντοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ δια θήκην τὴν δὲ ἀναθήκην ταύτην ἀνέστησεν Τάτιον Μενίππου τοῦ Μενίππου τετράκις Δημητρίου ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); a: MAMA; b: Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

Apparatus

The supplements, where not self evident, are based on the text of 13.5 (=MAMA 482) which honours this honorand's brother.

l. 5, Γάϊον, MAMA, without justification; since nothing is needed and a vacat seems more probable (giving prominence to the honorand's name).

l. 11, Reinach gives nothing after λι/τουργίας, did not see that his b. l. 1 fits here and proposed for his b. l. 2, συνεκτικότος τὴν πόλιν, wrongly.

ll. 12, 13, ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος, MAMA, wrongly.

ll. 15/16, πρὸ μοῖρας, Reinach, but 13.5 (=MAMA 482) l. 15 suggests differently.

l. 22/23, τὴν δὲν ταύτην, Reinach.

Translation

The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the first and greatest honours Pyrrhos Papias son of Pyrrhos the son of Zenon son of Pyrrhos, 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 gymnasiarchies and stephanephoriates in perpetuity in accordance with the existing will of his father. This monument was set up by Tation daughter of Menippos son of Menippos, fourth of that name from Demetrios, his mother.

Commentary

It is now clear that two brothers were honoured, here and in 13.5 (=MAMA 482), in very much the same terms and perhaps left their property to the city for similar purposes. There is an initial problem that if the family connections are correctly interpreted both this man and his father (13.7)had the second name Papias. The normal practice seems to have been for the son to take a second name when his first was the same as that of a living father (or, perhaps grandfather); for both to have two names in common seems likely to increase the chances of confusion. Reinach observed that in our inscriptions the father was not always given the second name (not in fact in this text where the son has it, although he has it in his own text and in that of the other son Demetrios). It is not impossible that there has been a mason's error in this text.

Nothing is known at present of the mother's family.

For comment on the family and the funding see on 13.7 (=CIG 2775).

Locations

Walls, North: fallen from the wall, north of the Stadium Unknown, Necropolis, North. Findspot (1985)

History of Recording

Both parts recorded but not published by Kubitschek (a. K.III.10, Abklatsch 2a; b. III.13, Abklatsch 1d); recorded as separate texts by Gaudin (92e and 92h); a recorded by the MAMA expedition; both parts recorded and joined by the NYU expedition in 1973.

Bibliography

a published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 140-41 no. 72; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 481, whence McCabe 322b published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906,140-141 no. 74, whence Laum, no 114, McCabe 580

Photographs

Fragment a (1973)

Fragment b (1973)

Fragments a & b (1985)

Fragments a & b (1985)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 10

Kubitschek notebook III, 13