Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.528. Honours for Molossos, a child

Description: No description; presumably a statue base.

Text: No description.

Letters: No description.

Date: First- second centuries CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'eodem muro' (Sherard, near 12.537, 12.531, east of 12.631.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1716)

Interpretive

ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη-
σαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις
τειμαῖς Μολοσσὸν Περείτου
τοῦ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώ̣ρου
5Γρύπου γενόμενον ἱερέα Ἑρμοῦ
Ἀγοραίου παῖδα τὴν ἡλικίαν

Diplomatic

ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗ
ΣΑΝΤΑΙΣΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ
ΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΝΠΕΡΕΙΤΟΥ
ΤΟΥΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ.ΡΟΥ
5ΓΡΥΠΟΥΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΝΙΕΡΕΑΕΡΜΟΥ
ΑΓΟΡΑΙΟΥΠΑΙΔΑΤΗΝΗΛΙΚΙΑΝ

Apparatus

2: ΚΑΛΙΣΤΑΙΣ Sherard, 1716
3: ΠΕΡΙΤΟΥ Sherard, 1716
4: ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟΡΟΥ Sherard, 1705, Sherard, 1716, Wood, 1750
5: ΓΡΙΠΟΥ Sherard, 1716 || ΕΡΜΟ Sherard, 1705, Sherard, 1716; ΕΡΜΟΥ Wood, 1750
6: 12.720 might be a fragment

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

The Council and the People honoured with the finest and greatest honours Molossos son of Peritas the son of Adrastos the son of Artemidoros Grypos, who has become priest of Hermes Agoraios, while a child in age.

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

The Council and the People honoured with the finest and greatest honours Molossos son of Peritas the son of Artemidoros Grypos, ?when he became priest of Hermes Agoraios, while a child in age.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 14; Sherard, 1705 42; Sherard, 1716 120; Wood, 1750 14, 54, 14 loose page 46

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2770 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 307 ; IAph2007 12.528.

Images

Fig. 1. Wood notebook 14, page 54

Fig. 2. Wood notebook 14, loose page 45

Fig. 3. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6r and f.17v, at British Library