<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType"> honours</rs> for Neaira and Metrodoros

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A plain white marble block (2.06 × 0.59 × depth not measurable).

Description of Text

Both texts inscribed on the face, which is cracked, i. to the left, ii. to the right. The block is complete above, though chipped; i. must therefore have begun on an upper block.

Description of Letters

i. 0.03-0.035 ii. 0.02-0.025.

Date

i. first half of first century A.D.; ii. second half of first century A.D.

Edition
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη σεν καὶ μετηλλακχυ ῖαν ταῖς ἀξίαις καὶ πρεπούσαις τειμαῖς Νέαιραν Μενεκλέους Ἀμμίαν γυναῖκα γενομένην Μητροδώρου τοῦ Μητροδώρου Δημητρίου ζήσασαν κοσμίως καὶ σωφρόνως
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν καὶ μετηλλαχχότα sic Μητρόδωρον Μητροδώρου Δημήτριον ζήσαντα κοσμίως ἄνδρα περὶ τὰ κοινὰ τῆς πόλεως φιλότειμον ἔν τε ἀρχαῖς καὶ ὑποσχέσεσιν καὶ ἐργεπιστασίαις καὶ ταῖς λοιπαῖς εἰς τὴν πατρίδα ὑπηρεσίαις πρόθυμον γενόμενον
Apparatus

i: Wood could not read lines 1 and 2

ii. l. 7, episilon corrected from sigma.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; Wood; Deering; Gaudin.

Translation

i. The Council and the People honoured also after her death with appropriate and becoming honours Neaira Ammia, daughter of Menekles, who was the wife of Metrodoros Demetrios son of Metrodoros, who lived in a well-ordered and discreet manner.

ii. The Council and the People honoured also after his death Metrodoros Demetrios son of Metrodoros who lived with due order, ambitious to serve the common good of the city and zealous as a magistrate, in the superintendency of public building and in other services for the city.

Commentary

These texts are in different hands - i. resembles 12.609 (=MAMA 478) - but are inscribed on a single block, part of the tomb whose elements were incorporated in the South-east gate, and which include 13.302 (=ΜΑΜΑ 474), and 12.411 (=MAMA 548): see Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334.

Locations

Walls, South-east Gate:element of the tomb incorporated in the gate. Findspot Necropolis, South-east.

History of Recording

Recorded by Sherard in 1716 (10101 121-2); by Wood (14, f47); by Deering (1v, nos 4 and 5); by Fellows; by Bailie (see Researches, 51-2, 83-4); by Choisy; by Loew; by Waddington; mentioned by K&R (RI.14v);recorded by Gaudin (154, 147); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

a: Published published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2816 and 2779; by Fellows, Acct. 323-324, no. 31 and 30, whence CIG p. 1114, Bailie, Fasc. ii 24-25 and 283, no. 51.i and h. Mentioned by Franz, from Loew, Ann. d. Inst. 19, 1847, 114-115, nos. a.1 and a.6; Published by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 125-127, nos. 67, 65; from the MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 473, 472 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 309, 305 .

Photographs

i (1973)
ii (1973)

Representations

i: Wood notebook 14, page 47
i and ii: Deering notebook, 1v
ii: Gaudin squeeze