Decree of honours for Praxiteles son of Aristeas
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source date: Perhaps early second century CE
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ἔδοξεν τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ γνώμη ἀρχόντων καὶ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Νεικοτείμου γραμματέως δήμου καὶ Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου παραφύλακος ἐπεὶ Πραξιτέλης Ἀριστέου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου νεανίας ἀγαθὸς ζήσας βίον αἰδήμονα καὶ κόσμιον καὶ ἄξιον ἐπαίνου τὰ νῦν ὑπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος ὑπείληπται, καθήκει δὲ τοῖς οὕτως ζήσασιν καὶ μετηλλαχόσι τὰς ἐπὶ τῇ κοσμίῳ ἀναστροφῇ μαρτυρίας καὶ τειμὰς ἀποδιδόναι δεδόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τετειμῆσθαι ταῖς ἀξίαις καὶ πρεπούσαις τειμαῖς καὶ μετηλλαχότα Πραξιτέλην Ἀριστέου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου νεανίαν γενόμενον ἀγαθὸν καὶ παντὸς ἐπαίνου καὶ μαρτυρίας ἄξιον ἐξεῖναι δὲ καὶ τοῖς προσήκουσιν αὐτοῦ ἀναθεῖναι ἰκόνα ἐν ὅπλῳ ἐφ' οὗ καὶ ἐπιγραφῆναι τὰς οἰκείας τειμάς

Decision of the Council and the People, proposal of the magistrates and of Artemidoros son of Artemidoros son of Neikoteimos secretaty of the People, and of Philip son of Artemidoros: Since Praxiteles son of Aristeas the son of Alexandros, a good young man, having lived a life modest and orderly and deserving of praise, has now been taken away by the divinity, and since it is proper to offer to those who have lived and died so testimonies and honours for their orderly life: it was decided by the Council and the People to honour with fit and appropriate honours also after his death Praxiteles son of Aristeas the son of Alexandros, a youth who was good and deserving of all praise and testimony, and for his nearest to be authorised to set up his image on a shield, on which his own honours should also be inscribed.

[...], K.III.56, Abklatsch 39; [...], 43; [...]. [...] in 1976, 76.185

[...] 7 , whence [...] 431; [...] 7 , whence [...] 137, [...] 101; [...] 414 , whence [...] 14 , [...] H.137 (listed); [...] 12.319.