Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.364. Honours for anonymus, son of Menandros, boy pankratiast

Description: A block, statue base shaft, with moulded panels, which has been cut down to create a panel 0.7 deep.

Text: Inscribed within panel and on upper (line 1) and lower (lines 34-35) mouldings (lines 1, 34-5). The opening lines must have been inscribed on a crowning feature.

Letters: Lines 1-29, 0.02; line 30 ff, 0.013. Standard second/third century forms.

Date: c. 230-240 (contests)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Unknown; passed into a French private collection

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Troyes, saleroom (2015)

Interpretive

[ἡ βουλὴ ἐτείμησεν? ---]-
Α̣ΡΟΣ̣ ( vac. 1) τοῦ Μεσ̣[c. 4]
υἱὸν Μενάν-
δρου τοῦ οἰκο-
νόμου αὐτῆς
5 ἀγωνισάμενον
παίδων παν-
((scroll)) κράτιον ((scroll))
ἐνδόξως τὸν ἐ-
πιτελεσμέ-
10νον ἀγῶνα Φι-
λημονίηον ὑ-
πὸ τῶν περὶ τὸν
ἀξιολογ̣ώτ̣ατ̣ον
Ἀντ(ώνιον) Καρ(μίνιον) Πο(πίλιον) Ἀγέ-
15λαον ἀρχινεω-
ποιὸν νεωποι-
ῶν τῆς ἐπιφανε-
στάτης θεοῦ
20 ((scroll)) Ἀφροδείτης ((scroll))
τῆς ἀναστάσε-
ως τοῦ ἀνδριάν-
τος γεγενημέ-
νης ἐκ τῶν προσ-
25όδων πάσης τῆς
((scroll)) βουλῆς ((scroll))
δι' Ἀντ(ωνίου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Εὐ-
ελπίστου τοῦ
((scroll)) βουλάρχου ((scroll))
30 ὅστις Μένανδρος
ἐστέφθη νεικήσας
καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα καθὼς
καὶ διὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀν-
δριάντος τοῦ αὐτοῦ
35 πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἑστῶτος
((scroll)) δ̣[ηλ]οῦται ((scroll))

Diplomatic

[...............---]
.ΡΟ.  ΤΟΥΜΕ.[····]
ΥΙΟΝΜΕΝΑΝ
ΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΟΙΚΟ
ΝΟΜΟΥΑΥΤΗΣ
5ΑΓΩΝΙΣΑΜΕΝΟΝ
ΠΑΙΔΩΝΠΑΝ
ΚΡΑΤΙΟΝ
ΕΝΔΟΞΩΣΤΟΝΕ
ΠΙΤΕΛΕΣΜΕ
10ΝΟΝΑΓΩΝΑΦΙ
ΛΗΜΟΝΙΗΟΝΥ
ΠΟΤΩΝΠΕΡΙΤΟΝ
ΑΞΙΟΛΟ.Ω.Α.ΟΝ
ΑΝΤΚΑΡΠΟΑΓΕ
15ΛΑΟΝΑΡΧΙΝΕΩ
ΠΟΙΟΝΝΕΩΠΟΙ
ΩΝΤΗΣΕΠΙΦΑΝΕ
ΣΤΑΤΗΣΘΕΟΥ
20 ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ
ΤΗΣΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕ
ΩΣΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙΑΝ
ΤΟΣΓΕΓΕΝΗΜΕ
ΝΗΣΕΚΤΩΝΠΡΟΣ
25ΟΔΩΝΠΑΣΗΣΤΗΣ
ΒΟΥΛΗΣ
ΔΙΑΝΤΑΥΡΕΥ
ΕΛΠΙΣΤΟΥΤΟΥ
ΒΟΥΛΑΡΧΟΥ
30ΟΣΤΙΣΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣ
ΕΣΤΕΦΘΗΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΣ
ΚΑΙΤΟΝΑΓΩΝΑΚΑΘΩΣ
ΚΑΙΔΙΑΤΟΥΕΤΕΡΟΥΑΝ
ΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣΤΟΥΑΥΤΟΥ
35ΠΡΟΑΥΤΟΥΕΣΤΩΤΟΣ
.[..]ΟΥΤΑΙ

Apparatus

1: ΔΡΟ .. ΤΟΥΜ ........ Bailie. Bailie, 1846; -[αν]δ̣ρο[ν ..] ΤΟΥ[.] Μ[c. 6] IAph2007
13: ΛΟΙΩΙΑΙΟΝ
36: [.......] Δ . CIG II.2, 1835

Translation

[The Council honoured ?Menandros ] son of Menandros, the oeconomus of (the body responsible), who competed in the boys' pankration with distinction, (at) the celebration of the Philemoniean contest by the neopoioi of the most manifest goddess Aphrodite, led by the most renowned Ant(onius) Car(minius) Po(pilius) Agelaos, chief-neopoios; the erection of the statue took place from the income of the whole Council, (organized) by Antonius Aurelius Euelpistos, the boularch. Which Menandros was crowned, having won (in) the contest also, as is made clear by the other statue of him, put up before it.(?)

Bibliography

Transcription: Borrell, 1820s Bailie, 1842, in Borrell's collection; CMR, in the saleroom, in 2015

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2811, from Borrell , whence Liermann, 1889 26 : Bailie, 1846 48; Roueché, PPA 85 , whence PHI PPAphr 85, Smith, 2006 H.261 (listed); IAph2007 15.364.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Roueche, 2015)

Fig. 2. Upper face (Roueche, 2015)

Fig. 3. Saleroom note, 2015


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