Unknown, Honors for an Athlete, IAph2007 12.214
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Context
This text was inscribed probably on a marble statue-base found near
the eastern city-wall at Aphrodisias in Caria, western Asia Minor. The eight surviving
lines written in the mid-2nd century recognize the public honors for T. Aelius Aurelius
Menander. He was a victorious athlete who specialized in the
pankration, a combat sport that combined the skills of boxing and
wrestling. The impressive list of his competitions spans the eastern Mediterranean but
particularly Asia Minor to Syria and Palestine, including Caesaea Maritima (line 3).
This is an abbreviated version of the same victor’s list recorded at
IAph2007 12.920.
Text
·· ? ··]Προυσιάδα ἀνδρῶν πανκράτιν, ΚλαυδιόπολινἌνκυραν τ̣ῆς
Γαλατίας, Πεσσινοῦντα, Δαμασκὸν β´,Βηρυτὸν, Τύρον, Κα̣ισαρείαν τῆς
Στράτωνος,Νεάπολιν τῆς Σαμαρίας, Σκυθόπολιν, Γάζαν,Καισάρειαν
Πανιάδα β´, Ἱερόπολιν, Ἀναζαρβὸν, Μοψ- (5)ουεστίαν, Τρίπολιν τῆς Συρίας, Φιλαδέλφειαν
τῆςἈραβίας, Ζεῦγμαπρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, Κιβύραν 1
Textual Note
Ed. Roueché 1993 and Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007Translation
[... he won ] at Prusias, the men's pancration; at Claudiopolis, at
Ancyra of Galatia, at Pessinus, at Damascus twice, at Beirut, at Tyre, at
Straton’s Caesarea, at Neapolis of Samaria, at Scythopolis, at
Gaza, at Caesarea Panias twice, at Hieropolis, at Anazarbus, at Mopsuestia, at Tripolis
of Syria, at Philadelphia of Arabia, at Zeugma by the Euphrates, at Kibyra.
Translation Note
Trans. Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007Works Cited
- 1 Joyce Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché, and Gabriel Bodard, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007), Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007), 2007, entry: 12.214.
Additional Bibliography
- Charlotte Roueché, Performers and Partisans at Aphrodisias in the Roman and Late Roman Period. A Study Based on Inscriptions from the Current Excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria, Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 6 (London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1993), p: 235-236, entry: 92.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Unknown, Honors for an Athlete, IAph2007 12.214,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/63.
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