Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.116. Commemoration of ephebes

Description: Marble block (bench or door jamb), broken on top and right, underside roughly carved: w: 0.315 × h: 1.28 × d: 0.29.

Text: Inscribed on one side, roughy polished, each within within an inscribed tabula ansata: A: w: 0.23 × h: 0.14; B: w: 0.25 × h: 0.14, C: w: 0.26 × h: 0.16

Letters: A: 0.02-0.03; B: 0.012; C: 0.013

Date: Late second to early third century CE (material context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-East, in a field east of the Temple

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

A
Ἐμνήσθ[η]
Ἀρτεμίδ[ωρος]
τῶν συνε[φή-]
βω̣ν ΕΓΙ
B
Ἐ̣μ̣ν̣ή̣σ̣θ[ησαν?]
Διονύσιο[ς]
[c. 4]Ν[c. 5]
ΒΟΝ καὶ [..]ΜΗ
5[.]Ε[c. 7]ΟΣΝ
ΝΟΥ[c. 4]ΠΙ
ΧΟΙ[---]
C
Ἐφηβάρχου κ̣α̣[λοῦ?]
ἐμνήσθησα[ν]
οἱ φιλοσυνέφηβ[οι]
Ζήνων, Ἄδρασ-
5τος, Ἐπίκτητος,
Παπίας, Ἀγαθό-
πους, κατὰ τειμ[ὴν?]
δὲ Νεικοστράτου
Ἡρακλέους

Diplomatic

A
ΕΜΝΗΣΘ[.]
ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ[....]
ΤΩΝΣΥΝΕ[..-]
Β.ΝΕΓΙ
B
.....Θ[....]
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟ[.]
[····]Ν[·····]
ΒΟΝΚΑΙ[··]ΜΗ
5[·]Ε[·······]ΟΣΝ
ΝΟΥ[····]ΠΙ
ΧΟΙ[---]
C
ΕΦΗΒΑΡΧΟΥ..[...]
ΕΜΝΗΣΘΗΣΑ[.]
ΟΙΦΙΛΟΣΥΝΕΦΗΒ[..]
ΖΗΝΩΝΑΔΡΑΣ
5ΤΟΣΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΣ
ΠΑΠΙΑΣΑΓΑΘΟ
ΠΟΥΣΚΑΤΑΤΕΙΜ[..]
ΔΕΝΕΙΚΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ

Apparatus

B.1: or Ἐ̣μ̣ν̣ή̣σ̣θ[η . .]
B.3: perhaps [ἐφή]|βω̣ν
B.3-4: possibly [τῶ]ν [συνεφή]|βω̣ν or [τῶν συ]ν[εφή]|βω̣ν

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2016

(A): Artemid[oros?] commemorated his fellow ephebes --. (B): Dionysios [----] commemorated [--]. (C): The association of friends who served together as ephebes, Zenon, Adrastos, Epiktetos, Papias, and Apathopous, commemorated the good ephebarchos Neikostratos Herakles, honouring him.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 2006, Ι 06.03

Publication: Chaniotis, 2015 3 (C only), whence SEG 65.946; Chaniotis, 2016 3, whence SEG 66.1152

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