Stone stele with inscription on repair of sanctuary



Stone stele with inscription on repair of sanctuary

Ε136
Stone (Limestone)
Almost intact, chipping around the edges.
Height: 28 cm. Width: 49 cm. Thickness: 22 cm. Height of letters: 1.3-1.8 cm.
Kalo Chorio, Ierapetra
Pyrgos site
Roman period:
c. 120/119 BC:
Gallery:
XXII
Case:
Not in case
Exhibition thematic unit:
Classical - Hellenistic - Roman period (5th c. BC-4th c. AD). The Cemeteries
Inscriptions of the Classical and Roman periods
Description
Rectangular stele with a dedicatory inscription of eleven verses, offered by the Eunomia, the council of the kosmoi (political rulers) of Lato. It describes repairs carried out to a sanctuary of Aphrodite and Ares, of uncertain location (Istron or Lato?) 1 [Δ]αμάτριος Κίλικος καὶ ἁ σὺν αὐτῷ Εὐνομία ἐπὶ τῶι ἀφιδρύματι τὸν ναὸ- ν τῶ Ἄρεος καὶ τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας ἐποίησαν, ἐπε- σκεύωσαν δὲ καὶ τὸν λάκκον καὶ τὸν περίπατ- 5 ον καὶ τῶι δικαίωι τὰς χειάς καὶ ἀπὸ μέριος τὸν χορὸν. ἔχουσαν Δαμάτριος Κίλικος, Πο- λύτιμος Θαρσυφάνιος, Θίων Δαμοχάριος, Ἀντιπάτας Πύρωνος, Θιοκλῆς Φύλα-   κος, Ἐνίπας Μναστίωνος, 10 Τύμων Κορύπτα, Πάγων Πάγωνος τῶ Θιο-   φείδιος, Πάγων Εὐθύφρονος.        Free translation: Damatrios, son of Kilix and the other members of the Eunomia deliberated for the re-establishment of the temple of Ares and Aphrodite; they repaired the cistern and the stoa and the lairs of the sacred serpent and the dancing-floor. The Eunomia consisted of Damatrios son of Kilix, Polytimos son of Tharsiphanes, Thion son of Damocharis, Antipas son of Pyron, Thiocles son of Phylax, Enipas son of Mnastion, Tymon son of Coryptas, Pagon son of Pagon and grandson of Thiopheides, and Pagon son of Euthyphron.
Bibliography:
Inscriptiones Creticae I, xiv, 2. J. Bousquet, "Le temple d'Aphrodite et d'Arès à Sta Lenikà", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 62 (1938), 386-408. H. Van Effenterre, "Querelles crétoises", Revue des Études Anciennes 44(1942), n°1-2, 31-51. G. Pironti, Entre ciel et guerre: Figures d’Aphrodite en Grèce ancienne, (Kernos, Su 8) Liége, Université de Liége, 2007, nn. 254-256. B.J. Hayden et alii, Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro area and related studies, Philadelphia 2004, p. M. Bowsky, "Portrait of a Polis: Lato pros Kamara (Crete) in the Late Second Century B.C.", Hesperia 58 (1989), 333, 338-340, 345-6.
Author:
K. S.


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