Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.406. Honorary inscription for Myon

Description: Marble statue base, with rough semi-circular curved back: a dowel hole on top and mouldings on top and bottom; broken along the right side, damaged on top. w: 1.15 × h: 0.39 × d: 0.57

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.025-0.03

Date: Julio-Claudian (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: in a niche in the Tetrapylon Street

Original location: Findspot

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ἡ γερουσία καὶ ὁ δ̣[ῆμος]
Μύωνα Μενάνδρου τοῦ Εὐνε̣[ίκου Εὐ-]
σεβέα Φιλόπατριν κτίστην, κατασκε[υάσαν-]
τα τὰ πλεῖστα τῇ πόλει ἔργα ἐκ τῶν ἑαυ[τοῦ]
5καὶ τὸ βαλανεῖον τὸ γερούσιον πρῶτον
((scroll)) ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ποήσαντα ((leaf))

Diplomatic

ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΚΑΙΟ.[....]
ΜΥΩΝΑΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΕΥΝ.[......-]
ΣΕΒΕΑΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΝΚΤΙΣΤΗΝΚΑΤΑΣΚΕ[.....-]
ΤΑΤΑΠΛΕΙΣΤΑΤΗΠΟΛΕΙΕΡΓΑΕΚΤΩΝΕΑΥ[...]
5ΚΑΙΤΟΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝΤΟΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΟΝΠΡΩΤΟΝ
ΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΠΟΗΣΑΝΤΑ

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2018

The council and the gerousia and the [people] (honoured) Myon Eusebes Philopatris, son of Menandros, grandson of Eunikos, a ktistes (builder), who constructed many buildings in the city from his own property and who also first made the baths of the gerousia at his own expense.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition I 14.02, 13.144

Publication: Smith and Öğüş, 2014b 79, 88 (mention), whence SEG 65.948; Sokolicek, 2016 60 (description); Chaniotis, 2018 , whence SEG 68.839

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