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A.6. List of priests of Apollo

Description: Part of a stele of white marble, probably Attic. Inscribed on face a (w: 0.52 x h: 0.66), which is damaged along the left edge and bottom, and worn and pitted on the surface, and on face b, which is chipped down the left edge and cut away to the right (surviving surface w: 0.04 x h: 0.68). Subsequently cut down for reuse as an impost block in the sixth century Church (w: 0.52 x h: 0.66 x d: 0.27). Perhaps associated with A.3, A.5.
Text: Inscribed on two surviving faces; b. is to the right of a. In b each entry is in a different hand; there is a superscript bar cut between lines 1 and 2 whose purpose is obscure.
Letters: a. First century CE; 0.02-0.025. b: Second century CE; 0.015-0.002; square sigma in line 2; L for ἔτους.

Date: a. First century CE; b. Second century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: East Church, in 1920.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum, 2008.

Interpretive

a
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[Ἀθ]ηναῖος Ποσειδωνίου
Ἀπολλώνιοϲ Καρνεάδου
[Ἰ]άσων Ζηνίωνος
Ἀ̣λέξανδρος Θεοκύδου
5Ζ̣ήνων Ζήνωνος
[Χ]αρίφαντος Ἡρακλείδου
Κλ̣ητόμαχος Καρτιμάχου
Εὖφρις Καρ̣τ̣ιμάχου
[Ν]ικίας Ἀλεξάνδρου
10[Ἀ]ρίστων Ἀ[ρι]στομένους
[Ἀ]πολλω̣νιο̣ς̣ Θέωνος
[Δι]όδωρος Δ[ι]ο̣δώρ̣ου
[Σ]ωσίβιος Διοδότου
[Ἀ]θ̣ηναῖος Ἀθηναίου
15[Ἀρί]στων Διοδότου
[Κτ]ήσιππος Διοφάντου
[Ἀ]μμώνιος Ἀμμωνίου
[Σ]ωσίπατρος Λευκίου
[Σ]ωσίπατρος Διο[.. ? ..]
20[c. 5]Ε̣Λ̣[..]ΗΣ[---]
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b
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Ι̣[---]
ΕΙ[.]Ϲ[---]
ΛΙΕ[---]
[.]Α[---]
5[.]Δ[---]
[.]Λ[---]
[.]ΦΙ[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
10[.]Α[---]
ΗΡ[---]
ΚΑ[---]
Μ[---]
(ἔτους) [---]
15Α̣[---]
ΚΑ[---]
Μ[---]
ΔΟ[---]
( vac. 1 line)

Diplomatic

a
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[..]ΗΝΑΙΟΣΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝΙΟΥ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟϹΚΑΡΝΕΑΔΟΥ
[.]ΑΣΩΝΖΗΝΙΩΝΟΣ
.ΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣΘΕΟΚΥΔΟΥ
5.ΗΝΩΝΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
[.]ΑΡΙΦΑΝΤΟΣΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ
Κ.ΗΤΟΜΑΧΟΣΚΑΡΤΙΜΑΧΟΥ
ΕΥΦΡΙΣΚΑ..ΙΜΑΧΟΥ
[.]ΙΚΙΑΣΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
10[.]ΡΙΣΤΩΝΑ[..]ΣΤΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ
[.]ΠΟΛΛ.ΝΙ..ΘΕΩΝΟΣ
[..]ΟΔΩΡΟΣΔ[.].ΔΩ.ΟΥ
[.]ΩΣΙΒΙΟΣΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ
[.].ΗΝΑΙΟΣΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥ
15[...]ΣΤΩΝΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ
[..]ΗΣΙΠΠΟΣΔΙΟΦΑΝΤΟΥ
[.]ΜΜΩΝΙΟΣΑΜΜΩΝΙΟΥ
[.]ΩΣΙΠΑΤΡΟΣΛΕΥΚΙΟΥ
[.]ΩΣΙΠΑΤΡΟΣΔΙΟ[.. ? ..]
20[·····]..[··]ΗΣ[---]
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b
------
.[---]
ΕΙ[·]Ϲ[---]
ΛΙΕ[---]
[·]Α[---]
5[·]Δ[---]
[·]Λ[---]
[·]ΦΙ[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
10[·]Α[---]
ΗΡ[---]
ΚΑ[---]
Μ[---]
L [---]
15.[---]
ΚΑ[---]
Μ[---]
ΔΟ[---]
     vacat

a.3: [Ἰ]άσων : Ἰάσων SECir, 1961-1962
a.6: [Χ]αρίφαντος : Ἀριφάντος SECir, 1961-1962
a.10: Ἀ[ρι]στομένους : Ἀριστομένους SECir, 1961-1962
a.20: ε ιι SECir, 1961-1962

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

(a). . . . ] Athenaios (scil. son) of Posidonios, Apollonios son of Karneades, Jason (scil. son) of Zenion, Alexandros (scil. son) of Theokydes, Zenon (scil. son) of Zenon, Chariphantos (scil. son) of Herakleides, Kletomachos (scil. son) of Kartimachos, Euphris (scil. son) of Kartimachos, Nikias (scil. son) of Alexandros, Ariston (scil. son) of Aristomenes, Apollonios (scil. son) of Theon, Diodoros (scil. son) of Diodoros, Sosibios (scil. son) of Diodotos, Athenaios (scil. son) of Athenaios, [Ari]ston (scil. son) of Diodotos, Ktesippos son of Diophantos, Ammonios (scil. son) of Ammonios, Sosipatros (scil. son) of Leukias, Sosipatros (scil. son) of Dio[- . . .

(b) not usefully translatable.

Commentary

Probably a list of eponymous priests of Apollo; see on A.3.

a. line 9: No doubt related to Ἀλέξανδρος Νικίου in A.5, line 15.

a. line 10: Perhaps related to Ἀριστομένης Ἀρίσ[τωνος] in A.3, line 7.

a. line 13: No doubt related to Διόδοτος Σωσιβίου in A.5, line 14.

a. line 16: No doubt related to Διόφαντος Κτησίππου in A.5, line 6.

b. line 14 was dated, a practice which seems to start at Cyrene in the Flavian period.

Bibliography: a: SECir, 1961-1962, 202, with illustration, fig. 149 (from photographs); a and b, Reynolds, 1972, 46: Reynolds, 1976, 8 and plates LVII, LIX, whence SEG 27.1130.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.1390)

   Fig. 2. Face a (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 3. Face a (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 4. Face b (2008, H.Walda)