<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for anonymus, son of Menandros, boy pankratiast

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A block, statue base shaft, with moulded panels. No measurements.

Description of Text

Inscribed within panel and on upper and lower mouldings (ll.1, 34-5). The opening lines must have been inscribed on a crowning feature.

Letters

standard second/third century forms. Ligatures: ΤΗ, ΝΕ, l.17.; ΝΗ, ΜΕ, l.22; ΝΗ, l.23; ΤΗ, l.24; ΗΝ, l.30. The copies suggest that ll.34 ff. are in a smaller script than the preceding text.

Date

c. 230-240 (contests)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ ἐτείμησεν Μεν ανδρον ΤΟΥ Μ υἱὸν Μενάνδρου τοῦ οἰκονόμου αὐτῆς ἀγωνισάμενον παίδων παν κράτιον ἐνδόξως τὸν ἐπιτελεσμένον ἀγῶνα Φιλημονίηον ὑπὸ τῶν περὶ τὸν ἀξιολογώτατον Ἀντώνιον Καρμίνιον Ποπίλιον Ἀγέλαον ἀρχινεωποιὸν νεωποιῶν τῆς ἐπιφανεστάτης θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος γεγενημένης ἐκ τῶν προσόδων πάσης τῆς βουλῆς δι' Ἀντωνίου Αὐρηλίου Εὐ ελπίστου τοῦ βουλάρχου ὅστις Μένανδρος ἐστέφθη νεικήσας καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα καθὼς καὶ διὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀνδριάντος τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἑστῶτος δηλοῦται
Apparatus

l. 2, ΔΡΟ .. ΤΟΥΜ ........ Bailie.

l. 36, The layout is that shown by Bailie; [.......] Δ . CIG.

Translation

[The Council honoured ?Menandros ] son of Menandros, the oeconomus of (the body responsible), who competed in the boys' pankration with distinction, (at) the celebration of the Philemoniean contest by the neopoioi of the most manifest goddess Aphrodite, led by the most renowned Antonius Carminius Popilius Agelaos, chief-neopoios; the erection of the statue took place from the income of the whole Council, (organized) by Antonius Aurelius Euelpistos, the boularch. Which Menandros was crowned, having won (in) the contest also, as is made clear by the other statue of him, put up before it.

Commentary

See bibliography

Locations

Unknown Unknown Findspot (1842)

Text Constituted From

Publications.

History of Recording

Copied by H. P. Borrell; perhaps copied by Bailie; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Borrell, CIG 2811, whence Liermann, Analecta 26. Published, from Borrell's copy and possibly one of his own, by Bailie, no. 48. Referred to by Oikonomos, Arch. Delt. (1921/2), 293. Published by Roueché, PPA 85.

Photographs

No photographs.