Description: White marble block in six fragments, two joining (C and F).

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-east: 'in the southern part of the city, not far from the East Gate' (Sherard)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1750)

English translation

Translation source: Broughton, 1938

(Musical)

(I): tragic actor, 500; adult lyre player, 500; comic actor, 400; cyclic flute player, 350; encomiast, 200; poet 200; pythic flute player, 200; contestant in all contests, 200; trumpeter, 150; herald, 150; lyre player, boy, 150

(B II): lyre player, adult, 3250; lyre player, adult, second, 1000; contestant in all contests, 1000

(III): tragic actor, first, 2700; comic actor, first, 1600; pythic flute player, first, 1400; tragic actor, second, 800; tragic actor, third, 600; trumpeter 500; herald 500; cyclic flute player (?), first 500; pythic flute player second, 400; comic actor, third, 400; cyclic flute player, second, 100

(Gymnastic)

(III): pancratiast, adolescents, 5000; wrestler, adolescents, 3800; pentathlon, adolescents, 3800; stadium race, adolescents, 2000; distance race, adults,2000; stadium race, boys, 1400; pentathlon, adults, 1340.

(Equestrian)

(III): chariot, grown horses, first, 1500; chariot, colts, first, 1000; chariot, grown horses, second, 500; two horses, colts, second, 350

(Musical)

(IV): citharoede, first, 1500; choraules, 750; chorocitharist, 500; winner of the pyrrhic, 500; contestant in all, 500; citharoede, second, 400; satyr, 150

(Gymnastic)

(IV):pancratiast, adults, 3000; wrestler, adults, 2000; boxer, adults, 2000; pancratiast, adolescents, 2000; pancratiast, boys, 1650; wrestler, adolescents, 1500; boxer, adolescents, 1500; stadium race, adults, 1250; double course, adults,1000; wrestler, boys,1000; boxer, boys,1000; distance run, adults, 750; stadium race, adolescents, 750; stadium race, boys, 525; distance run, boys, 500; double course, boys, 500; pentathlon, adults, 500; race in armor, adults, 500; pentathlon, adolescents, 385; pentathlon, boys, 250.

(Equestrian)

(IV): rider, 750; equestrian, 250

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Section I:

For the musical [contest] of those from the synod the prizes are as follows:

Column i: Trumpeter, 150 denarii; herald, 150 denarii; writer of encomia, 200 denarii; poet, 200 denarii; boy harp-singer, 150 denarii; pythic flautist, 200 denarii; comedian, 400 denarii; [tra]gedian, 500 denarii; cyclic flautist, 300 denarii; [ . . .

Column ii: Adult harp-singer, 500 denarii; overall victor, 200 denarii. For the athletic contest of the citizen boys, [?] denarii. Adult stadium-runner, 1000 [denarii]; adult wrestler, 1,500 [denarii]; adult pancratiast, 1,500 [denarii]; adult boxer, 1,500 [denarii . . .

Section II:

. . . ] adult harp-singer, 3,250 denarii, second prize, 1,000 denarii; Latin poet, [? denarii]; poet, [? denarii]; overall victor, 1,000 denarii; secretary, 550 denarii; panegyriarch, [? denarii]; awnings and equipment for the theatre, 1,000 denarii; [ . . .

Section III:

Column i . . . ] trumpeter, 500 denarii; herald, 500 denarii; pythic flautist, 1,400 denarii, second prize, 400 denarii; cyclic flautist, [?1],500 denarii, second prize, 500 denarii; comedian, 1,600 denarii, second prize, 500 denarii, third prize, 300 denarii; tragedian, 2,700 denarii, second prize, 800 denarii, third prize, 600 denarii; [ . . .

Column ii . . . ] adult long-distance runner, 2,000 denarii. For young men: stadium-runner, 2,000 denarii; pentathlete, [?1,000] denarii; wrestler, 3,800 denarii; boxer, [3,800 denarii]; pancratiast, 5,000 denarii; adult pentathlete, 1,340 denarii; boy stadium-runner, 1,400 denarii; [ . . .

Column iii . . . ] For boys: wrestler, [ ? denarii]; boxer, [ ? denarii]; pancratiast, [ ? denarii]. For men: wrestler, [ ? denarii]; boxer, [ ? denarii]; pancratiast, [ ? denarii]; hoplite-runner, [ ? denarii]; race-horse, [horse, ? denarii]; race-horse, [colt, ? denarii]; pair [of horses, ? denarii]; pair [of colts, ? denarii]; second prize for colts, 350 denarii; chariot (with) horses, 1,500 denarii; chariot (with) colts, 1,000 denarii; chariot (with) horses, second, 500 denarii; for the xystarch, in reimbursement, 745 denarii; for the supplier of straps, 301 denarii; for releasing of the pulleys, 300 denarii; for sand-pit and the mud-pit, 400 denarii; for oil, 2,000 denarii; for sculptors, 1,500 denarii; [ . . .

Section IV:

Column i . . ] choral harpist, 500 denarii; choral flautist, 750 denarii; harp singer, 1,500 denarii, second prize, 400 denarii; pyrrhic dancer, 500 denarii; satyr performer, 150 denarii; overall victor, 500 denarii. Athletic prizes: boy long-distance runner, 5[?00] denarii; boy stadium-runner, 525 denarii; boy double-circuit runner, 500 denarii; boy pentathlete, 500 denarii; boy wrestler, 500 denarii;

Column ii boy boxer, 1,000 denarii; boy pancratiast, 1,650 denarii; young man stadium-runner, 750 denarii; young man pentathlete, 385 denarii; young man wrestler, 1,500 denarii; young man boxer, 1,500 denarii; adult long-distance runner, 750 denarii; adult stadium-runner, 1,250, adult double-circuit runner, 1,000 denarii; adult pentathlete, 500 denarii; adult wrestler, 2,000 denarii; adult boxer, 2,000 denarii. stop.

Column iii adult pancratiast, 3,000 denarii; hoplite runner, 500 denarii; horse-jumper, 250 denarii; horseman, 750 denarii; for sand-pit and pulleys for the stadium, 500 denarii; hire of straps, 250 denarii; for the xystarch, as reimbursement, 674 denarii; for statue, 1,000 denarii. ?end.

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