MAMA XI 160 (Kidyessos) 
Honorific inscription for Agathemeros
- Type of monument:
- Honorific inscription.
- Location:
- Sinanpaşa (Sincanlı) (Kidyessos): in the wall of the main mosque.
- Description:
- White marble block, broken on all sides, hidden behind.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.61+; W. 0.41+; Th. --; letters 0.029-0.032.
- Record:
- Drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/21).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third century AD.
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[αθ]ήμερον̣ ⟨ν⟩έον ἥ[ρωα]
[διὰ] τ̣ὰς τοῦ γένο[υς]
[αὐ]τοῦ ἀπὸ ἄνω[θεν]
5[ἔν] τε ἀρχαῖς ταῖς
[πρ]ωτευούσαις κ[αὶ]
[λε]ιτουργίαις κὲ δι[α]-
[ν]ομαῖς κὲ σειτοδεία̣[ις]
[π]ε̣ρὶ τὴν πατρίδα εὐ[ερ]-
10[γ]ε̣σίας v. τὴν ἀνάσ[τα]-
[σι]ν τοῦ ἀνδριάντο[ς]
[π]οιησαμένου Α̣[ὐρ(ηλίου)]
[Γλ]ύκωνος β´ τοῦ [ἐλ]-
[λο]γίμου βουλευ̣[τοῦ]
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[... Agath]emeros, the young deceased, because of the benefactions of his family towards his homeland over many generations, in the principal offices and liturgies and distributions and grain-shortages. The setting-up of the statue was undertaken by Aur(elius) Glykon, son of Glykon, the well-reputed councillor ...
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 160 (Kidyessos 1: 1956-21)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 160 (Kidyessos 1: 1956-21)
If the restoration of the gentilician Aur(elius) in lines 11-12 is correct, this honorific inscription ought to date to the third century AD. For the phrase νέος ἥρως = ‘young deceased’ (line 1), see Robert, Hellenica XIII, 207; OMS V 315; and cf. MAMA XI 149 (1955/34). For the use of the adverb ἄνωθεν to signify ‘from earlier generations’ (line 3), cf. IGR IV 779 (Apameia-Kelainai), Πομπήιον Φάλκωνα ἀνθύπατον ἄνωθεν εὐεργέτην τῆς πόλεως ἡμῶν; I.Prusa 21, ἄνωθεν ἐκ προγόνων ὄντα φιλότειμον; I.Ephesos 989, γένος ἔχουσαν ἄνωθεν ἱερειῶν καὶ κοσμητειρῶν. I can find no parallels for the pleonastic ἀπὸ ἄνωθεν. For the adjective ἐλλόγιμος in lines 12-13, compare Calder 1956: 49, no.2 (SEG 15, 812: Eukarpeia, Sandıklı), line 12 (the restorations here are questionable). The stone was still visible mortared into the wall of the mosque at Sinanpaşa in April 2011.