Statue base in honor of Insteios Alexandros with funerary elegy from Stuberra

Monument IDStuberra2
Text
Category of inscription
honorary inscription for private persons - prose
Date
2nd - 3rd c. AD
Dating criteria
lettering
Images
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Text part 1
Рrose grc
Κατὰ τὸ δόξαν
τῷ κρατίστῳ
συνεδρίῳ τῶν
Μακεδόνων
5καὶ τῇ Δερριό-
πων βουλῇ καὶ
τῷ ((leaf)) δήμῳ
((leaf)) Ἰνστέϊον ((leaf))
Ἀλέξανδρον
10 Φλ(αούιος) Παράμονος
καὶ Ἰνστέϊα ((leaf))
Νικόπολις οἱ
γονεῖς ἀρετῆς
ἕνεκεν Text part 2
Verse grc
πρῶτον ὑπηνήτην με θεοῖ συνθῶκον ἔθηκαν |
ἀγλαίην πινυτὴν τ’ ἔξοχ’ ἀγασσάμενοι |
Δίσσας μὲν δεκάδας δισσοὺς δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖς λυκάβαντας |
ἐρχόμενον· Μοῦσαι θῆκαν ὁμωρόφιον. |
Δῖον Ἀλέξανδρον με θεοῖ ῥητῆρα τέθηκαν |
καὶ θέντες μακρὸν βῆσαν Ὄλυμπον ἐπὶ | Text part 3
Verse grc
εἲ τίς μοι ἔδωκεν φάρμακον γνώτω θεὸς |
εἰ δ' οἱ θεοὶ χρῄζοντες ἥρπασαν τάχυ |
στέξουσιν οἱ γονεῖς μου τὴν εἱμαρμένην |
ὁτ’ εἰς θεοὺς ἀπῆλθα καὶ οὐχ εἰς δαίμονας. |

ΚΑΤΑΤΟΔΟΞΑΝ
ΤΩΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩ
ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΩΤΩΝ
ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ
5ΚΑΙΤΗΔΕΡΡΙΟ
ΠΩΝΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙ
ΤΩ- leaf ΔΗΜΩ
- leaf ΙΝΣΤΕΙΟΝ- leaf
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΝ
10ΦΛΠΑΡΑΜΟΝΟΣ
ΚΑΙΙΝΣΤΕΙΑ- leaf
ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΣΟΙ
ΓΟΝΕΙΣΑΡΕΤΗΣ
ΕΝΕΚΕΝ
15ΠΡΩΤΟΝΥΠΗΝΗΤΗΝΜΕΘΕΟΙΣΥΝΘΩΚΟΝΕΘΗΚΑΝ
ΑΓΛΑΙΗΝΠΙΝΥΤΗΝΤ’ΕΞΟΧ’ΑΓΑΣΣΑΜΕΝΟΙ
ΔΙΣΣΑΣΜΕΝΔΕΚΑΔΑΣΔΙΣΣΟΥΣΔ’ΕΠΙΤΑΙΣΛΥΚΑΒΑΝΤΑΣ
ΕΡΧΟΜΕΝΟΝ·ΜΟΥΣΑΙΘΗΚΑΝΟΜΩΡΟΦΙΟΝ
ΔΙΟΝΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΝΜΕΘΕΟΙΡΗΤΗΡΑΤΕΘΗΚΑΝ
20....ΕΝΤΕΣΜΑΚΡΟΝΒΗΣΑΝΟΛΥΜΠΟΝΕΠΙ
ΕΙΤΙΣΜΟΙΕΔΩΚΕΝΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΝΓΝΩΤΩΘΕΟΣ
ΕΙΔΟΙΘΕΟΙΧΡΗΖΟΝΤΕΣΗΡΠΑΣΑΝΤΑΧΥ
ΣΤΕΞΟΥΣΙΝΟΙΓΟΝΕΙΣΜΟΥΤΗΝΕΙΜΑΡΜΕΝΗΝ
ΟΤ’ΕΙΣΘΕΟΥΣΑΠΗΛΘΑΚΑΙΟΥΧΕΙΣΔΑΙΜΟΝΑΣ
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Α. In accordance with the resolution of the supreme Assembly of the Macedonians, and of the Council and People of the Derriopes, the parents Flavius Paramonos and Insteia Nikopolis (honored with a statue) Insteios Alexander on account of his excellence.
B.With the first down on my lip, the gods placed me under their roof,
greatly admiring my splendor and wise understanding.
Two decades and two years after that,
as I turned, the Muses made me their companion.
Divine Alexander ‒ the gods made me a rhetor,
and having done so, they departed up the great Olympus.
C.If someone gave me poison ‒ let God know,
but if the gods, desiring me, took me swiftly,
my parents will endure the fate,
for I went to the gods and not to demons.
Κατὰ τὸ δόξαν τῷ κρατίστῳ συνεδρίῳ τῶν Μακεδόνων καὶ τῇ Δερριό πων βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ Ἰνστέϊον Ἀλέξανδρον Φλαούιος Παράμονος καὶ Ἰνστέϊα Νικόπολις οἱ γονεῖς ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν

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πρῶτον ὑπηνήτην με θεοῖ συνθῶκον ἔθηκαν ἀγλαίην πινυτὴν τ’ ἔξοχ’ ἀγασσάμενοι Δίσσας μὲν δεκάδας δισσοὺς δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖς λυκάβαντας ἐρχόμενον· Μοῦσαι θῆκαν ὁμωρόφιον. Δῖον Ἀλέξανδρον με θεοῖ ῥητῆρα τέθηκαν καὶ θέντες μακρὸν βῆσαν Ὄλυμπον ἐπὶ

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πρῶτον ὑπηνήτην με θεοῖ συνθῶκον ἔθηκαν ἀγλαίην πινυτὴν τ’ ἔξοχ’ ἀγασσάμενοι Δίσσας μὲν δεκάδας δισσοὺς δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖς λυκάβαντας ἐρχόμενον· Μοῦσαι θῆκαν ὁμωρόφιον. Δῖον Ἀλέξανδρον με θεοῖ ῥητῆρα τέθηκαν καὶ θέντες μακρὸν βῆσαν Ὄλυμπον ἐπὶ

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πρῶτον ὑπηνήτην με θεοῖ συνθῶκον ἔθηκαν

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πρῶτον

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ὑπηνήτην

lemma: ὑπηνήτης
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με

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θεοῖ

lemma: θεός
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συνθῶκον

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ἔθηκαν

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ἀγλαίην πινυτὴν τ’ ἔξοχ’ ἀγασσάμενοι

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ἀγλαίην

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πινυτὴν

lemma: πινυτός
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τ’

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ἔξοχ’

lemma: ἔξοχα
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ἀγασσάμενοι

lemma: ἄγαμαι
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⤦ n: 3

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Δίσσας μὲν δεκάδας δισσοὺς δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖς λυκάβαντας

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Δίσσας

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μὲν

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δεκάδας

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δισσοὺς

lemma: δισσός
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δ’

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ἐπὶ

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ταῖς

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λυκάβαντας

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ἐρχόμενον· Μοῦσαι θῆκαν ὁμωρόφιον.

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ἐρχόμενον

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·

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Μοῦσαι

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θῆκαν

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ὁμωρόφιον.

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Δῖον Ἀλέξανδρον με θεοῖ ῥητῆρα τέθηκαν

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Δῖον

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Ἀλέξανδρον

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με

lemma: ἐγώ
tag: w
θεοῖ

lemma: θεός
tag: w
ῥητῆρα

lemma: ῥητήρ
tag: w
τέθηκαν

lemma: τίθημι
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⤦ n: 6

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καὶ θέντες μακρὸν βῆσαν Ὄλυμπον ἐπὶ

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καὶ

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θ

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έντες

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μακρὸν

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βῆσαν

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Ὄλυμπον

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ἐπὶ

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εἲ τίς μοι ἔδωκεν φάρμακον γνώτω θεὸς εἰ δ' οἱ θεοὶ χρῄζοντες ἥρπασαν τάχυ στέξουσιν οἱ γονεῖς μου τὴν εἱμαρμένην ὁτ’ εἰς θεοὺς ἀπῆλθα καὶ οὐχ εἰς δαίμονας.

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εἲ τίς μοι ἔδωκεν φάρμακον γνώτω θεὸς εἰ δ' οἱ θεοὶ χρῄζοντες ἥρπασαν τάχυ στέξουσιν οἱ γονεῖς μου τὴν εἱμαρμένην ὁτ’ εἰς θεοὺς ἀπῆλθα καὶ οὐχ εἰς δαίμονας.

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εἲ τίς μοι ἔδωκεν φάρμακον γνώτω θεὸς

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εἲ

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τίς

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μοι

lemma: ἐγώ
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ἔδωκεν

lemma: δίδωμι
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φάρμακον

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γνώτω

lemma: γιγνώσκω
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θεὸς

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εἰ δ' οἱ θεοὶ χρῄζοντες ἥρπασαν τάχυ

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εἰ

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δ'

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οἱ

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θεοὶ

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χρῄζοντες

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ἥρπασαν

lemma: ἁρπάζω
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τάχυ

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⤦ n: 3

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στέξουσιν οἱ γονεῖς μου τὴν εἱμαρμένην

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στέξουσιν

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οἱ

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γονεῖς

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μου

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τὴν

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εἱμαρμένην

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ὁτ’ εἰς θεοὺς ἀπῆλθα καὶ οὐχ εἰς δαίμονας.

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ὁτ’

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εἰς

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θεοὺς

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ἀπῆλθα

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καὶ

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οὐχ

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εἰς

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δαίμονας

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Apparatus
Letters in ligature:

A 3 ) ΝΕ;

A 6 ) ΗΚ;

A 10 ) ΜΟ, ΟΣ;

A 13 ) ΤΗΣ;

A 14 ) ΝΕ;

B 2 ) ΗΝ (bis), ΜΕ;

B 3 ) ΜΕ, ΟΥΣ, ΝΤ;

B 4 ) ΜΕ;

B 5 ) ΝΜΕ, ΗΚ;

B 6 ) ΤΕ;

C 3 ) ΝΕ, ΗΝ, ΜΕ, ΝΗΝ;

C 4 ) ΠΗ;

Readings

B3 ) δῦ κράντας Kalpakovska, Jandreska

B4 ) ---- ομενον Kalpakovska, Jandreska

B5 ) [ἴ]διον Kalpakovska, Jandreska

B6 ) ..... μακρὸν Kalpakovska, Jandreska

C1 ) ἔδοκεν Kalpakovska, Jandreska

C2 ) εἴδοι Kalpakovska, Jandreska

C3 ) στ’ ἔξουσιν Kalpakovska, Jandreska

C4 ) ἀπήδοθα Kalpakovska, Jandreska

Commentary

ll. 5-7: In Upper Macedonia during the Roman period, it was typical to have organizations forming a community (κοινόν, ἔθνος) composed of smaller settlements or villages that gravitated around a central urban settlement. This structure is known among the Lynkestai, Orestai, and Elimiotai, who belonged to territories referred to in historical sources as “free,” and whose existence is confirmed through inscriptions. The inscriptions also confirm that the same type of organization existed in Derriopos and Stuberra, while a similar situation is attested among the Dassaretii and the city of Lychnidos; ll. 8-9, 11-12: Next to this inscription, another statue base was found, dedicated to Insteia Nicopolis, the mother of Insteius Alexander, who, according to a decree of the council of the neocorate Septimia Aurelia Stuberra and the assembly of the Derriopes, was honored in the city with a statue as a mark of respect for her virtue. The Insteii family of Stuberra is also known from the lists of ephebes dated to 87/8, 116/7, and 121/2 AD, which were set up in the gymnasium. Members of the family are listed not only as ephebes, but one also served as a gymnasiarch and another as leader of the ephebes; in addition, a priest of Heracles from 247/8 AD is known from the same family (See ). The family almost certainly derived its nomen from Marcus Insteius, an officer close to Mark Antony, who, after coming to Macedonia following the civil wars, at the very beginning of the formation of the province, became the patron of prominent families in the region, most of whom are attested in Stuberra and Beroea.

Bibliography

Кепеска, Лилјана. Кепески, Костадин. Почитување на царскиот култ во Стибера, Macedoniae acta archaeologica 20, 2011, стр. 320-322, (само од фотографија No. 7)

Kalpakovska, Vesna. Jandreska, Olivera. Death elegy additionally inscribed upon an honorary monument in Styberra, Monumenta 5, 2020, pp. 583-591, photos 2, 6, 7-9.

See also: Калпаковска, Весна. Јандреска, Оливера. Мермерна плоча со натпис на свештеник на Херакле од Стибера од Збирката на епиграфски споменици и камена пластика, при НУ Завод и Музеј Прилеп, Зборник на трудови на НУ Завод за заштита на спомениците на културата и музеј – Битола 22, 2019, стр. 33-42

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