<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Peritas Kallimedes and his wife Tatia

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble sarcophagus (2.66 × 1.19 × 1.36: interior 2.15 × 0.87 × 1.00). The front face has an elaborately carved garland running along the upper edge and part-way down the two sides, and a simple moulding below. On the face busts, a bearded male (to the left) and a veiled female (to the right), are carved in relief profile, facing one another, each on a rectangular pedestal, with moulding above and below. See further Smith (below)

Description of Text

The texts are inscribed on the face to the left of the male bust (i); between the two (ii) and to the right of the female bust (iii).

Description of Letters

i: 0.03; ii: 0.0225-0.025; iii: 0.02-0.025.

Date

Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, sculpture).

Edition
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν καὶ μετηλλακχότα ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ πρεπούσαις τειμαῖς Περείταν Διογένους τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Καλλιμήδην ἄνδρα ἐνάρετον ζήσαντα ἐνδόξως καὶ ἐπιφανῶς καὶ κοσμίως γενόμενον ἔν τε λειτουργίαις καὶ ἀρχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις νεωποιήσαντά τε μεγαλοπρεπῶς καὶ κοσμίως καὶ ἐπιφανῶς καὶ πάντα ποιήσαντα ἀναλογούντως τῷ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ ἀξιώματι ἐφ' οἷς ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐπεβό ησαν τειμηθῆναι αὐτὸν καὶ μετηλλακχότα
Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Διόδωρον Καλλιμήδην ἄνδρα ἐνάρετον ζήσαντα ἐνδόξως καὶ ἐπιφανῶς καὶ κοσμίως γενόμενον ἐν λειτουργίαις καὶ ἀρχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις καὶ πάντα ποιήσαντα ἀναλογούντως τῷ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ ἀξιώματι τὸν ὄντως φιλόσοφον
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Τατίαν Διογένους τοῦ Διογένους τοῦ Δημητρίου Φιλήμονος σώφρονα καὶ φίλανδρον καὶ φιλότεκνον καὶ πάσῃ διὰ παντὸς τοῦ βίου κοσμηθεῖσαν σεμνότητι καὶ ἀρετῇ γυναῖκα δὲ γενομένην Περείτου τοῦ Διογένους τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Καλλιμήδους ἀνδρὸς ἔν τε ἀρχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις καὶ λειτουργίαις γεγονότος καὶ νεοποιήσαντος εὐσεβῶς καὶ φιλο τείμως
Translation

i. The Council and the People honoured also after his death with the most splendid and fitting honours Peritas Kallimedes son of Diogenes the son of Apollonios, a man of virtue, who won esteem and note for his way of life, was well-ordered in his conduct of liturgies and offices and embassies, generous and well-ordered and notable as a neopoios, and acted always as was appropriate to the honour of his family. For these reasons the Council and the People voted by cheering (?by acclamation) for honours to be paid to him also after his death.

ii. (The Council and the People honoured) Marcus Aurelius Diodoros Kallimedes, a man of virtue who won esteem and note for his way of life, was well-ordered in his conduct of liturgies and ofices and embassies, and acted always as was appropriate to the honour of his family, a man who was genuinely a philosopher.

iii. The Council and the People honoured Tatia daughter of Diogenes Philemon the son of Diogenes the son of Demetrios, a prudent woman, devoted to her husband and her children, and adorned throughout her life with outstanding dignity and virtue; she was the wife of Peritas Kallimedes son of Diogenes the son of Apollonios, a man who undertook offices and embassies and liturgies and was a pious and munificent neopoios.

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: 'in a large heroon east of the village' (MAMA); found with 13.104 (=MAMA 571). Findspot Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

History of Recording

Copied by K&R (K.III.19, Abklatsch 107); recorded by Gaudin (160); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition

Bibliography

Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, AAWW 1893, 102, no. 8, whence Buresch, RhMus 1894, p.431; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 137-139, no. 70, a-c; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 499, a-c whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 523, 446, 534; sarcophagus published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Sarcophagus 10

Photographs

Monument (1973)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 19
Kubitschek notebook III, 19v