Honours for Timosthenes [of Karystos]
ELA id: 25IG 2[3] 1 1135
Inv. number
EM 7533PHI
347430 http://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/347430Translations
https://www.atticinscriptions.com/inscription/IGII31/1135 http://pom.bbaw.de/ig/IG%20II_III³%201,%201135Images
http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/187452Description
Date
228/7 BCEPeriod: 3rd century BCE --> second half --> after 229 BCE, liberation
from Macedonian control
Reasons: archon
Text category
honorific decree ✓erasuresNotes:
The name of the 12th symproedros, from the deme of Pallene, has been erased.
On ll. 12-21, the first section of the motivation clause contains a long and detailed reference to Athenian laws about the city's duties toward its honoured benefactors.
Monument description
Monument type: stele Material: white marble✓ornamentation
Letters Height Mt: 0.005 Same stonecutter as:
IG 2[3] 1 1139 see Tracy 1990 41-4
Notes:
Cymatio.
Physical features
Measurements: h: 0.421 * w: 0.361 * t: 0.07State of conservation: The stone preserves the upper part of the
stele with the cymatio molding.
Legibility: The inscribed surface is rather damaged, especially on ll. 23
and ff., where most of the letters are completely eroded.
Findspot
Acropolis --> South slopes --> Wall of the Serpetze (outside of)
Date of discovery: 1877
Circumstances: archeological excavation First edition:
KoumanoudesAthenaion 6, 1877, no. 4
Notes:
Koumanoudes: "Found outside the Serpentze, in the terrains near the Odeion of Herodes"; seeARMA 1 no. 136
Original location
Acropolis
Details:
Maybe near the decree IG 2[2] 467, honouring the grandfather of the honourand, Timosthenes s. of Demophanos of Karystos, referred to in ll. 21 sqq. of the present decree (IG 2[2] 467, was found on March 1859, North of the Propylaia, among the ruins of the dome, see ARMA 5 no. 1124).
Published on 2017-02-15 19:13:15 by Chiara Lasagni https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3569-2417
Cite as: Lasagni, Chiara, Honours for Timosthenes [of Karystos], 2017. DOI: 10.13135/ELA-25
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