Dedication of a statue of Concord by nomophylakes
created: Photograph (Reynolds).
source date: Probably first century BCE to Augustan
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Bibliography

[...], 421 and fig 9, whence [...], 1926, p. 287, [...] 9.135, whence [...] 323988, [...], 54-5.

Νομοφύλακες οἱ ἐφ’ ἱαρεῦς Ξούθω Ἰσιδωρος Ἐτεάρχω Κλητόμαχος Κλητομάχω Νίκιππος Ἀριστοβούλω Εὔνικος Εὐίππω Βίων Ἰσογόνω Ἡλιόδωρος Ἡλιοδώρω Γραμματές Μουσαῖος Μουσαίω Σώστρατος Σωστράτω Θαλίαρχος [...] Ὁμονόιαν [...] ἀνέθηκαν

Apparatus

[^a1: at 13: ὁμονοία[ς ἕνακα] | Ὁμονοία[ν [; Oliverio suggested ὁμονοία[ν Σεβαστήν ?]]]

Translation

The nomophylakes in the time of the priest Xouthos, Isidoros son of Etearchos, Kletomachos son of Kletomachos, Nikippos son of Aristoboulos, Eunikos son of Euippos, Bios son of Isagonos and the secretaries, Mousaios son of Mousaios, Sostratos son of Sostratos, Thaliarchos [...], set up the image of Homonoia

Les nomophylaques (en charge) sous le prêtre Xouthos, Isidôros fils d'Etéarchos, Klètomachos fils de Klètomachos, Nikippos fils d'Aristoboulos, Eunikos fils d'Euippos, Biôn fils d'Isogonos, Hèliodôros fils d'Hèliodôros; secrétaires Mousaios fils de Mousaios, Sôstratos fils de ..., Thaliarchos fils de ..., ont consacré (une statue) d'Homonoia.

Commentary

One of a series of lists recording nomophylakes: C.93, C.94, C.96, C.95, C.97, GVCyr 26, all describing a series of dedications, and another list, C.98; cf also C.99; see further on C.93.

This inscription is the only one in which the secretaries of the nomophylakes are mentioned. It seems just possible that their inclusion here represents constitutional reform after a period in which six nomophylakes had had complete control of the Archive (as in C.94). Such a reform perhaps presupposes some agitation against oligarchic tendencies - a context which would give especial point to the dedication of a statue of Ὁμόνοια recorded in line 13; Cyrene is known to have been the scene of stasis on several occasions in the first century BCE. It would appear from later inscriptions, eg. C.95, C.97, C.98, that the secretaries were soon fully assimilated into the board.

Line 13: For the importance of Concord, see Robert, on C.95, noting the association with Aphrodite. This is probably Concord among the Cyrenaeans, cf. Ὁμόνοια Ἀπαμέων (Head, BMC Phrygia, no. 161), whether the reference is general, cf. on C.95 or specifically to a restoration of peace after stasis as suggested above. Thériault, op.cit. above, suggests that this is to be Concord among the nomophylakes themselves; he suggests a slightly later date of the first century CE. Homonoia could also be the peace restored to the Roman world after the civil wars, but this concept is not particularly relevant to the Nomophylakes.