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Honors (frag.) by Porters Devoted to Hermes for M. Aurelius Thelymitres (late II CE) Miletos - Ionia


Miletos (Ionia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), II CE
Wolfgang Günther, "Ehrungen für einen milesischen Periodoniken," in Studien zur alten Geschichte (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 1986) 1.323-325 (no. 2) = SEG 36 (1986), no. 1053 = AGRW ID# 12212


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Piece of a block of white-gray marble (22 x 24 x 16 cm). In this heavily reconstructed inscription, it may be the porters (sakkophoroi) devoted to Hermes (Hermaists) that honor the athlete Thelymitres.

Too fragmentary to translate.

Translation by: Harland



[Μάρκον Αὐρήλιον θηλυμίτρην, πυθιονεί]|[κην, καπετωλιονείκην, περι]οδονείκ[ην], | [παράδοξον, υἱὸν Μ. Αὐρ. θηλυμί]τ̣ρου παραδ[ό]|[ξου, τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ σεμνότατον σ]υ̣νέργιον τῶ[ν] || [- - ca. 16-17- - σακκοφ?]όρων Ἑρμα̣[ι]|[στῶν, τὸν εὐεργέτην ἐν πᾶσιν τ]ῆς πατρίδ[ος] | - - ca. 25 - - IO- - ca. 5 - -

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Item modified: December 8, 2015
ID number: 12212
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