Editor: L.Cappelletti

 

Text:

         [ἐπὶ Φ]ιλ̣οκ[ρ]άτ̣[εο]ς̣ Ἀφροδ̣ί̣τ̣α̣[ι]

col.I ἀγορανόμοι

         Διονυσόδωρος Ζωπύρου

         Εὐφραῖος Καλλικράτεος

5       τριακάδαρχοι

         Δαμοκράτης Ἀριστοκράτεος

         Ἀγέας Ἀγέα

         Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀγάθωνος

         Ἕλωρις Ἀπολλωνίου

10     Ἀριστοφάνης Ἀρχαγάθου

         Ἡρακλείδας Δαματρίου

         Ἀριστέας Ξένωνος

col.II Κρίτων Κρίτωνος

          Ἐπίγονος Ἐπιγόνου

          γραμματεὺς καὶ

          φρ̣αδατὴρ

5        Π̣ύρριχος Ἀριστογείτου

       ὑπογραφεὺς

       Δαμοκ̣ράτης Φιλίου

       ὑπηρέτας

       Ἀριστομένης Ζωπύρου̣

10   κᾶρυξ

       Μενεκράτης Σώσιος.

 

(Pugliese Carratelli 1956)

 

Translation: “In the year of office of Philokrates, to the goddess Aphrodite (dedicated), the agoranomoi Dionysodoros son of Zopyros, Euphraios son of Kallikrates, the triakadarchoi Damokrates son of Aristokrates, Ageas son of Ageas, Apollonios son of Agathon, Heloris son of Apollonios, Aristophanes son of Archagathos, Herakleidas son of Damatrios, Aristeas son of Xenon, Kriton son of Kriton, Epigonos son of Epigonos, the grammateus and phradater Pyrrichos son of Aristogheitos, the hypographeus Damokrates son of Philios, the hyperetas Aristomenes son of Zopyros, the karyx Menekrates son of Sosis”. (L.Cappelletti)

 

Find Spot: found in Palazzolo Acreide (Syracuse)

Support: limestone base (h. 25 cm; w. 53 cm; d. 39, 5 cm)

No./Current location: Palazzolo Acreide (Syracuse), Museo Archeologico Gabriele Iudica, no. 2238

Dating: 2nd cent. BC (EDR154555 et alii); 3rd-2nd cent. BC (IG XIV 211)

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