Inscribed Stele: Honorific Inscription for Publius Regius, by people of the "trikomia"

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 325
Date
Unknown (“i BC,” LGPN; see l. 2 comm.)., Hellenistic or Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. M14 No. 325
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Sculpture, Inscription
Inscription Type
Honorific Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Sculpture Type
Inscription of lost statue
Inscription Text
		Ἐπὶ στεφανηφό[ρου τοῦ δεῖνος]
		τοῦ Ναθηους, μη(νὸς) [	          ]
		ἡ τρικωμία  -Μηλοκ[ωμῆται, ?]
	4	(?) Αριοκωμῆται, -Καιβο(?)[κωμῆται]-
		ἐτείμησαν Π. Ῥέγιο̣[ν Δη]-
		μητρίου υἱὸν Κορν[ηλία       ]
		ΝΗΜ̣[ . . . . ] ἀρχιερέα [	    ]
Inscription Translation
“When [ (name) ], son of Nathes, officiated as stephanephoros, in the month [- - -], the ‘three-villages-community,’ consisting of the inhabitants of Melok[ome, -(?)]ariokome, Kaibo(?)[kome], has honored P(ublius) Regiu[s], son of [De]metrios, Corn[elia (tribu) - - -] high-priest [- - -].”
Inscription Comment
Site
Çapaklı
Findspot
Northeast of Sardis (see the lemmata of nos. 321 and 674).
Description

Stele of marble with pediment; broken in two parts, the left of which was copied by K. Buresch.

Comments

2 Ναθηους: the genitive of the indigenous name Ναθης (see no. 305, 40; Zgusta, Kleinas. Personennamen, p. 345, § 1009–1) appears in no. 305, 10 (44 BC) in the form Ναθειους. Körte compares similar forms (Πυθοκλήους and Μιθρήους); cf. IGSK 23 (Smyrna), nos. 521, 3 comm. and 101, 3 comm.; no. 627, 2: -]ικλήους. The authors of LGPN VA, p. 328, s.v. Νάθης, consider both persons attested in Sardis bearing the name Nathes could be the same man. - μη(νός): small H written above M.

3 τρικωμία: see Schuler, Ländliche Siedlungen, pp. 222–25, and p. 292, A 13. Another instance for Μηλοκωμῆται: Schuler, p. 294, A 64; see also TAM V 3, 1882, 5 comm.

3–4 The three different ethnics were separated from each other by short dashes. [Και-σ]αριοκωμῆται, Buresch; Ἀριοκωμῆται(?), Körte; [Δ]αριο(υ)κωμῆται, P. Foucart ap. IGRR referring to TAM V 2, 1335 and 1337. - Καιβο[κωμῆται?]: edd. Perhaps: καὶ Βο[- κωμῆται]?

5 Regius (ΡΕΓΙC[ ] the stone): see Solin and Salomies, Repertorium, p. 155. - Ῥέγιο̣[ν Δη]μητρίου: scripsi; Ῥέγιο̣[ν τοῦ Δη]μητρίου, Körte (Lafaye).

6–7 Κορν[ηλία]: Körte (“Inter Κορνηλίᾳ et ἀρχιερέα cognomen restituendum est”).

7 ΝΗΜ̣: or ΝΗΝ̣ - ἀρχιερέα: Probably a local high-priest; cf. Gabrielle Frija, Les prêtres des empereurs: le culte impérial civique dans la province romaine d’Asie (2012).

“An inscription [i.e., the present one]…may here be mentioned as probably Sardian,” Sardis VII 1, no. 108 comm.; “wohl dem Territorium des 18km entfernten Sardeis entstammend(e) Ehreninschrift einer τρικωμία,” P. Herrmann, Chiron 19 (1989), p. 138 n. 22.

See Also
Bibliography
A. Körte, Inscriptiones Bureschianae (1902), pp. 5–6, no. 2 (G. Lafaye, IGRR IV 1367).
Author
GP

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