Unknown, Honors for a Musician, IAph2007 1.182
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Και- [σ]α̣ρε[ίᾳ τῆς Στρ]άτω- [νο]ς̣

, and

Straton’s Caesarea

are directly attested at Unknown, Honors for a Musician, IAph2007 1.182. This passage was written ca. 200-249 C.E. possibly in Aphrodisias. This text was inscribed on two adjacent faces (a, b) of a white marble statue-base with molded panels and probably a cornice, found in the area of the Temple/Church at Aphrodisias in Caria, western Asia Minor. The 54 lines written in the early 3rd century on side a recognize the public honors bestowed on Meliton, a citharist who won in sacred competitions across the eastern Mediterranean from Greece to Asia Minor to Syria-Palestine. Among the various festivals where he competed are those at Caesarea “of Straton,” possibly the Actian Games there (lines 32-34).

[(e.g) ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ] [γερουσία] ἐ̣τείμη̣[?σαν ·· c. 5 ··] Μελίτωνα Μελίτωνος τὸν καὶ Ἀγροίταν πυθικὸν̣ καὶ κύκλιον κιθα̣ριστὴ ν ἱερονεί- (5) κὴν πλειστονείκην παράδοξο̣ν ἄνδρα εὐγενείᾳ κ̣αὶ vac. τρό- vac. που σεμν ότητι διαφέροντα κα ὶ ἐπὶ τού- (10) τῳ μάλιστα θ̣αυμασθέντακα [ὶ τ]ειμηθεντα ὑ [πὸ το]ῦ̣ κυρίου ἡ[μῶν αὐτ]ο̣κράτ[ορος ·· c. 6 ··]ου vac. (15) [·· c. 11 ··]ΑΙ vac. [·· c. 12 ··]Υ [·· c. 12 ··]Υ [·· c. 12 ··]Υ [·· c. 12 ··]Υ (20) Μ[·· c. 11 ··]Ι̣ ΤΩ̣Ι̣ [·· c. 4 ··]ΣΙ [ν]εικήσα̣[ντα] stop [Ἄ]κτια ἐν Νεικοπόλει vac. Ἐφέσηα ἐν Ἐ̣[φέσ]ῳ Side b Π̣ύ̣[θια ἐν Ἱε]ραπόλει Ἄκτι[α ἐν Ἱερα]π̣ό̣λ̣ει Ἄκτι[α ἐν ·· c. 6 ··] vac. (30) Ἄκτι[α ἐν ·· ? ·· Δα]μασκῷ stop [? Ἄκτια ἐν] Και- [σ]α̣ρε[ίᾳ τῆς Στρ]άτω- [νο]ς̣ stop Π[ύθια ἐν] Λαο- [δικε]ί̣ᾳ [?Συρία]ς̣ stop κοι (35) [νὰ Κ]α̣ππ̣[αδο]κῶν [ἐν Κ]αισα[ρείᾳ ? stop ] Ἡρα [κλ]εία stop Κομ̣[μόδ]εια ἐν Τύρῳ stop κοιν̣ὰ Βειθυνίας ἐν Νεικομη- (40) δείᾳ stop Αὐγούστεια ἐν Τράλλεσιν̣ stop κοινὰ Ἀσ̣[ί]α̣ς β´ stop ἐν Τράλλεσ[ιν ? stop ] Δεῖα [Ἅλ]εια β´ ἐν Φι̣λ̣α̣[δ]ελ[φείᾳ stop κ]οι- (45) νὰ Ἀσ̣ίας [ stop ἐν Φι]λαδ̣ε[λφ]είᾳ vac. Ι̣[·· c. 4 ··]Ε̣Ι [·] ΟΜ̣ [·· c. 10 ··]Α ΜΥ [·] Ι̣Ι̣ [··]Ι̣ [·· c. 4 ··]Α vac. πολε̣[ιτείᾳ ? vac. ] (50) πόλεων vac. ἐ̣[νδό]ξων κα̣[ὶ] ΝΑΙΙ̣[·· βου]λῇ stop καὶ π[?ροεδρίᾳ] vac. τειμηθέ̣[ντα vac. ]

[Ed. Roueché 1993 and Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007]

[The Council and the People and the Gerousia] honoured Meliton son of Meliton, also known as Agroitas, pythic and cyclic kithara-player, sacred victor, frequent victor, extraordinary, a man distinguished by good birth and dignity of conduct, and for this very much admired and honoured by our lord emperor [... 6 lines ...], who won Actia at Nicopolis, Ephesea at Ephesus, Pythia at Hierapolis, Actia at Hierapolis, Actia [ at ...], Actia at Damascus, [? Actia at ] Straton’s Caesarea, P[ythia] at [?Syrian] Laodiceia, the provincial festival of the Cappadocians at Caesarea, Heracleia Commodeia at Tyre, the provincial festival of Bithynia at Nicomedia, Augusteia at Tralles, the provincial festival of Asia twice at Tralles, [?Deia Hal]eia twice at Philadelphia, the provincial festival of Asia [at Phi]ladelphia, [...2 lines ...] , honoured with ? citizenship of distinguished ?and [? ...] cities, and [?(membership of the) Council] and [? honorific seating]. [Trans. Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007]

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[IAph2007 12.214

IAph2007 12.290]

[Aphrodisias

Caesarea in Cappadocia

Damascus

Ephesus

Hierapolis

Laodiceia (Syria?)

Nicomedia in Bithynia

Nicopolis

Philadelphia

Tralles

Tyre]

[Meliton]

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