Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.60. Honours for anonymus, boy boxer

Description: Apparently a statue base shaft (w: 0.22 × h: 0.69), perhaps (but not certainly) in two pieces.

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: Standard second/third century forms, 0.18.

Date: c. 241 (contests)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: 'In a wine-press to the south'.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]παῖδα τῶν [εὖ? γεγονότων]
[---] νείκησαν[τα ἐνδόξως? c. 4]
[παί]δων πυγ[μὴν ἐν? ἀγῶνι ]
[τὴς] Ἀφροδεισι[ήων Φιλημον-]
5 [ιήω]ν εἰκοστῆ[ς τετραετηρίδος]
[ἀγω]νοθετου[ντος Τιβερί-]
[ου] Κλαυδίου̣ [--- υἱοῦ]
[Ἀπολ]λωνίου Μα[ρκιανοῦ ---]
[---] Ἀσιαρχου [καὶ? ἀρχιερέως]
10 [τῆς] πατρίδος((stop)) [προνοησαμένων?]
[τῶν] τῆ̣ς ἐπιφα[νεστάτης θεᾶς]
( vac. 3) [Ἀ]φροδείτης ν̣[εοποιῶν τῶν περὶ]
[Τιβέ]ριον Κλαύ[διον Ἰούλιον Κάνδ-]
[ιδον] Ἡ̣γεμονέ[α Ἀσίας ἀρχιε-]
15[ρέων ] καὶ ἀρχιερ[έων υἱὸν καὶ ἔκ-]
[γονον] συνγενη Α̣ [c. 9 ἀρχ-]
[ινε]ωποιὸν Ι̣[c. 13]
[...]χόμενο Ι̣[c. 13]
[..] Ε̣Ν κεφαλ[c. 13]
20 [καθὼ?]ς καὶ ΤΟΙ̣[c. 13]
[τοῦ ἀ]ξιολογωτ[άτου c. 9]
[---] Α̣ἰλίου ΑΙ̣[c. 13]
[---]((leaf)) ΠΡΕ̣[c. 15]
( vac. )

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]ΠΑΙΔΑΤΩΝ[...........]
[---]ΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΝ[.........····]
[...]ΔΩΝΠΥΓ[..........]
[...]ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙ[..........-]
5[...]ΝΕΙΚΟΣΤΗ[..............]
[...]ΝΟΘΕΤΟΥ[..........-]
[..]ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟ.[---....]
[....]ΛΩΝΙΟΥΜΑ[.......---]
[---]ΑΣΙΑΡΧΟΥ[............]
10[...]ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ • [.............]
[...]Τ.ΣΕΠΙΦΑ[............]
      [.]ΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ.[..............]
[....]ΡΙΟΝΚΛΑΥ[...............-]
[....].ΓΕΜΟΝΕ[...........-]
15[....]ΚΑΙΑΡΧΙΕΡ[............-]
[.....]ΣΥΝΓΕΝΗ.[·········...-]
[...]ΩΠΟΙΟΝ.[·············]
[···]ΧΟΜΕΝΟ.[·············]
[··].ΝΚΕΦΑΛ[·············]
20[....]ΣΚΑΙΤΟ.[·············]
[....]ΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤ[....·········]
[---].ΙΛΙΟΥΑ.[·············]
[---] ❦ ΠΡ.[···············]
     vacat

Apparatus

Translation

[ ?The Council honoured so-and-so], boy [?of good family] who won [?with distinction] the boys' boxing [at the contest of the] twentieth [four-year occurrence of the] Aphrodeisiea [Philemoniea] when the contest-president was [Tiberius] Claudius [son of so-and-so] Apollonios Markianos [......], Asiarch [and high-priest of] his country; [(the erection of the monument) was overseen by the neopoioi] of the most manifest [goddess] Aphrodite led by the [chief] neopoios, Tiberius Claudius Hegemoneus [son of Julius Kandidos, son and grandson of high-priests of Asia] and of high-priests, kinsman [of consulars - -] ?capital sum [ - -?as - - ] the most renowned[ - - -] Aelius A[ - -

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.33, Abklatsch 78.

Publication: Cormack, 1964 14, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 361 ; Roueché, PPA 86 , whence PHI PPAphr 86 , Smith, 2006 H.270 (listed); IAph2007 11.60.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 33


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