Dedication of an image of Apollo Nomios by the nomophylakes
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Augustan or whole first century AD
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[...], n. 3 (ll. 3-13) and [...], p. 368 (ll. 1-4); [...], 20.736; [...], n. 6; [...] 026.

Ἐφ᾿ ἱαρεῦς [...] [...]ίω [...] [...]χω [...] [...]ωνος [...] [...]δώρω [...] [...]ωνος [...] [...]λω [...] [...]κλεῦς [...] Χαιράδα [...] Ἀγαθάρχω [...] Ἡφαιστίωνος Ἀπόλλωνα Νόμιον

[...] περικαλλὲς ἄγαλμα
[...] νόμων φύλακ[...]

Ἐφ᾿ ἱαρεῦς[^a1] [...]ίω[^a2] [...]ωνος[^a3] [...]δώρω[^a4] [...]ωνος[^a5] Χαιράδα[^a6] Ἡφαιστίωνος[^1][^a7] [...]περικαλλὲς[^2][^a8] [...]νόμων φύλακ[...][^a9]

[^a1: Ἐφ᾿ ἱαρεῦς | [...]]

[^a2: [...]ίω | [...]]

[^a3: [...]ωνος | [...]νος]

[^a4: [...]δώρω | [...]οδώρω]

[^a5: [...]ωνος | [...]νος]

[^a6: Χαιράδα | [...]άδα]

[^a7: Ἡφαιστίωνος | [...]αγτίωνος | Ἀπίωνος]

[^a8: [...]περικαλλὲς | [...][...]ἄδαες | Φοίβου Ἀπόλλωνος Νομίου περικκαλλὲς]

[^a9: [...]νόμων φύλακ[...] | [...]νόμων φύλακες | ἄνθεσαν εὐξάμενοι τῆιδε νόμων φύλακες]

[^1: J.M. Reynolds' reading]

[^2: Pugliese Carratelli's suggestion]

Sous le prêtre Untel fils de [...]ios, Untel fils de [...]khos, Untel fils de [...]ôn, Untel fils de [...]dôros, Untel fils de [...]ôn, Untel fils de [...]los, Untel fils de [...]klès, Untel fils de Khairadas, Untel fils d'Agatharkhos, Untel fils d'Ephaistiôn ont consacré l'image d'Apollon Nomios.

[...] la magnifique statue [...] les gardiens des lois.

Under priest So-and-so son of [...]ios, So-and-so son of [...]chos, So-and-so son of [...]on, So-and-so son of [...]doros, So-and-so son of [...]on, So-and-so son of [...]los, So-and-so son of [...]kles, So-and-so son of Chairadas, So-and-so son of Agatharchos, So-and-so son of Ephaistion dedicated the image of Apollo Nomios.

[...] the very beautiful statue [...] the guardians of the laws.

Nel sacerdozio del tale figlio di [...]ios, il tale figlio di [...]chos, il tale figlio di [...]on, il tale figlio di [...]doros, il tale figlio di [...]on, il tale figlio di [...]los, il tale figlio di [...]kles, il tale figlio di Chairadas, il tale figlio di Agatharchos, il tale figlio di Ephaistion hanno dedicato l'immagine di Apollo Nomios.

[...] la magnifica statua [...] i custodi delle leggi.

The first publication was given in 1961 from †Oliverio's ready-to-publish manuscript by Pugliese Carratelli, who a few months later added lines 1-3 after examination of Oliverio's copy. This addition was ignored by J.M. Reynolds, who provided to the editor of SEG the additional lines from her own autopsy of the stone. The date is also her suggestion.

For other dedications of divine images made by the nomophylakes in their own building, see IRCyr2020 C.93, IRCyr2020 C.94, IRCyr2020 C.95, IRCyr2020 C.96, IRCyr2020 C.97 and IRCyr2020 C.98. This is the only one in the series with a verse appendix, which makes certain that the dedication was made by the nomophylakes, whose title is in fact lost. Another one (IRCyr2020 C.93) is also the dedication of an image of Apollo Nomios, explicitely intended in relation with the office of 'guardian of the laws' of the dedicant. It should be stressed that Callimachus (Ap. 47-54) does mention the same epithet for Apollo, but in the quite different context and meaning, as a pastoral god (a νομεύς). More at IRCyr2020 C.93 and [...], p. 217.

One of the points is the restoration of the heading. As it seems from the photograph, the now lost fragment had the top of the panel. We should thus exclude a formulation strictly analogous with that of most other items beginning with 'The nomophylakes under priest So-and-so', which takes two lines and does not allow for the actual ending of our l. 1. The most plausible seems that the word nomophylakes was absent from a shorter heading, explicited in the verse as its climax. The stone-cutter might have begun with the traditional formulation and changed his mind, which would explain the rasura at line 1. If we allow this only line for the mention of the eponymous priest, we should have then nine nomophylakes (anyway not ten, as Peek wrote). Nine is the exact amount prescribed in Ptolemy's diagramma (IGCyr010800, l. 32), and they actually amount to nine in IRCyr2020 C.95, whereas in other dedications only six or seven are mentioned. Analogous changes occurred with the ephori during the late Hellenistic and early Roman times.

This panel, quite similar to the others of the series, was intented for insertion on a wall under an image, either painted or sculpted, or on a statue base. At l. 12 the word ἄγαλμα in the traditional formula with περικαλλές closing a verse-line should have the traditional Homeric meaning 'pleasant gift'. However it has probably also the later and more restricted meaning of 'statue of a divinity'. In the above text, the mention of a 'statue' was certainly subaudible, as in most dedications.

Although Peek's restorations surely reflect the general meaning, we do not consider them as the only possibility. In that view, we leave open the case of the last word, which might also be for example at the genitive.

The two names at ll. 9-10 were erroneously registered as from the fourth century BC in [...], pp. 2, 207.

Metrical analysis: two hexametric endings belonging respectively to the hexameter and the pentameter of an elegiac couplet.