Dedication to Apollo of his re-built temple
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Soon after 181 AD
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], n. 5 and drawing fig. 2, whence [...], 9.189; [...], 9b and photo fig. 11; [...] 030. Cf. [...], pp. 89-95 (support); [...], p. 195.

Καὶ πρότερόν σοι Φοῖβε τεὸν δωμήσατο νηὸν
Θήρης ἐκπεμφθεὶς Βάττος Ἀριστοτέλης
καὶ νῦν ἐκ πολέμοιο χαμαιριφῆ Ἀπόλλωνι
στῆσεν ὑπ' εὐσεβίης νηὸν Ἀριστοτέλης.

Une première fois pour toi, Phoibos, un temple fut construit

par Battos Aristotélès, envoyé de Thèra.

De même aujourd'hui, quand il eut été abattu par la guerre, pour Apollon

un temple a été érigé sous l'effet de la piété par un Aristotélès.

A first time, for you, Phoibos, a temple was built

by Battos Aristoteles, who had been sent from Thera.

In the same way now, as it has been thrown to the ground because of the war, for Apollo

a temple has been erected as a result of piety by an Aristoteles.

Una prima volta per te, Febo, costruì il tuo tempio

Battos Aristoteles, inviato da Tera.

Così ora, poiché è stato abbattuto dalla guerra, per Apollo

eresse un tempio, in virtù della sua pietà, un Aristoteles.

في المرة الأولى ، يا فوبس، كان قد بُني لك معبداً من قبل باتوس أريستوتيليس، الذي كان قد أرسل من ثيرا. والآن بنفس الطريقة، ، كما أسقطت على الأرض بسبب الحرب ، لأجل أبولو، أعيد بناء المعبد بسبب الإيمان القوي بأريستوتيليس (باتوس).

This epigram takes place at the end of a list of eponymous priests, of which the last mentioned one is explicitely dated to 178/9 AD. We know from another list (IRCyr2020 C.250) that a Dekimos Kaskellios Aristoteles was priest in 181/2 and deserved the epithet καλλιέτης because his year was a successfull one. Instead of having only his name on the present stone, we have an epigram playing on the similarity of his name with that of the Founder. The latter is better known through his surname Battos 'Stammerer', but his first name Aristoteles is also mentioned by some authors. It is commonly admitted that the 'war' mentioned here is the Jewish Revolt of 115-117. Unlike some public buildings quickly repaired under Hadrian, the temples of Zeus and Apollo had to wait for a thorough transformation (see [...], pp. 71-75 and [...], pp. 1052-1053). As shown by [...], the word χαμαιριφῆ is echoed in the queer layout of the verse-lines, showing that they were cut on a block broken during the revolt. The priest Aristoteles was surely not the only benefactor who made this possible, but more probably the work was finished under his priesthood.

Metrical analysis: two regular elegiac couplets. At l. 3, the name of Apollo has the usual lengthening of the initial α for metrical purpose and therefore the hexameter is spondaic.