Martin HALLMANNSECKER News from the Xenoi Tekmoreioi
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Philia 4 (2018) 67–73 Martin HALLMANNSECKER News from the Xenoi Tekmoreioi Abstract: In this article I provide a new edition and line-by-line commentary of one of the texts inscribed by the cultic association of the Xenoi Tekmoreioi in the Pisidian-Phrygian border re- gion in the 3rd c. AD. The edition is based on an unpublished entry in one of the diaries in which Sir William Mitchell Ramsay took notes and recorded inscriptions during his extensive travels through Asia Minor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries AD. Parts of the text under discussion have already been published, but the entry in the notebook from 1912–13 allows the emendation of names in ll. 9–10 and 12 and adds ten hitherto unknown lines at the bottom of the inscription continuing the list of personal names followed by patronymic, ethnikon, and sometimes a sum of money. Keywords: Xenoi Tekmoreioi; William Mitchell Ramsay; dedication; anthroponyms; Tyche; emperors. This article presents a new edition and commentary of one of the texts inscribed by the cultic associa- tion of the Xenoi Tekmoreioi in the Pisidian-Phrygian border region in the 3rd c. AD.1 It is based on an unpublished entry in the diary of Sir William Mitchell Ramsay from 1912–13 (25v-26r, see fig. 1) in which he recorded inscriptions in the area of Antioch by Pisidia (modern Yalvaç).2 This text is inscribed on a panel on a fluted Ionic column found in a garden wall in Sağırköy ca. 20 km north-west of Yalvaç, which in antiquity was part of the territory of Antioch.3 As most of the other texts produced by the Xenoi Tekmoreioi were found here as well, it seems safe to assume that they had their central meeting place here, but despite intensive surveys no archaeological remains have been found to date.4 They seem Martin Hallmannsecker, New College; University of Oxford; Holywell St; Oxford OX1 3BN (martin.hallmanns- [email protected]). 1 I am not going to discuss the nature of this association nor the chronology of the extant Xenoi Tekmoreioi texts, for which see the excellent analysis in Blanco-Pérez 2016 and Labarre 2010; the first systematic treatment was Ruge 1934; Arena 2013, 41–42 fn. 3 provides an exhaustive bibliographic overview. 2 I would like to thank Peter Thonemann for initiating engagement with the Ramsay notebooks as well as Charles Crowther from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, where most of the notebooks are held, for the permission to publish this text. It had also been copied by Ramsay in his notebook from 1911, where the readings are generally inferior to and differ from the 1912–13 entry only in a few cases (see com- mentary). 3 Sterrett 1888: ‘Saghir. Fluted column with a panel, which bears the inscription, and rests, as it were, on the arris- es. Copy’; Ramsay 1906: ‘At Saghir’; Ramsay 1912: ‘We had the stone taken out of a garden wall, and thus un- covered a number of lines, which were hitherto concealed and uncopied. … the letters are so worn… The stone ought to be tried once more before it is completely published; … On B, an adjoining face of the stone, only a few letters are engraved. In A there remain a good many lines which might probably be read with time and patience, if the stone were put in a good position’; Notebook 1912–13: ‘Saghir. On fluted Ionic column roughly squared two sides’. No indications of the measurements of the monument or the letters are given in any case. 4 Wallner 2016, 158 fn. 8 who published a new fragment of a Xenoi Tekmoreioi list of unknown provenance found in the depot of the excavations of Antioch. More hitherto unknown fragments from other notebooks of Ramsay were published by Byrne and Labarre (eds) 2006, n. 14–26, who seem to have excluded our text from their corpus because parts of it had been published already. All in all, we now possess ca. 45 texts pertaining to the Xenoi Tek- moreioi found in Sağırköy and Kumdanli ca. 10 km to the south. 68 Martin Hallmannsecker to have formed an association of fairly wealthy men mostly from rural areas which were apparently not directly connected to the famous sanctuary of Mên Askaenos on the Karakuyu mountain just outside of Antioch by Pisidia, the only other place where a word from the *tekmor- root is attested in several dedi- cations.5 Our text commemorates the erection of a bronze statue of Tyche for the good fortune of the emperors, their victory and eternal continuity as well as the safety of their household (A ll. 1–5). After this dedicatory part the magistrates of the association are listed (1 ἀναγραφεύς, 2 πρωτανακλῖται,6 3 βραβευταί, in the form ἐπὶ + genitive), some of them with the sum of money they contributed (A ll. 6– 15). The rest of the extant inscription mentions the members of the association without an office who contributed to this project, in the form of a list of exclusively male names in the nominative followed by a patronymic, an ethnikon/demotikon,7 and (in some cases) a sum of money. In most of the surviving Xenoi Tekmoreioi lists, which are of very similar nature, almost all of the individuals bear the pseudo- praenomen Aurelius, firmly establishing the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD as terminus post quem. The mention of emperors in the plural together with the comparatively higher sums of money make a date after AD 238 most likely for our text.8 Parts of this text have been published by J. R. S. Sterrett in 1888 and by Ramsay himself in 1906 and 1912. The entry in the notebook from 1912–13 allows the emendation of names in ll. 9–10 and 12 and renders ten hitherto unknown lines at the bottom of the in- scription. Editions: Sterrett 1888, 238 n. 369 [ll. 1–8]; Ramsay 1906, 333–334 n. 12 [ll. 1–8] (IGRR III 298); Ramsay 1912, 158 n. 12 [ll. 1–16]. Letter forms: Ε, Σ, and Ω are lunate throughout; Υ sometimes takes the shape of a V; the middle bars of Μ are curved; ligatures occur with Η or Ν. Text: Face A Face B [ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν κυ]ρίων τύχης καὶ [ν]- |ἐ]π- [εί]κης καὶ αἰωνίου διαμονῆς |ὶ ἀνα- καὶ τοῦ σύνπαντος αὐτῶν οἴκου |[γρα]φέ- σωτηρίας ἀνέστησαν Ξένοι |ως Αὐ[ρ.] 5 Τεκμορεῖοι Τύχην χάλκεον ἐπ[ὶ] |Ὀπτ- [ἀν]αγραφέος Αὐρ. Παπᾶ δὶς Ἀ̣σ̣τ[ιβιηνοῦ(?)] |[ί]μο[υ] [δ]οὺς ἐπίδοσιν Ş ͵ΓΦΑ̣ʹ |[Δι]ογ[έ-] [ἐ]πὶ [πρω]τανα{υ}κλίτ[ου] Μεν͜νεᾶδ[ος] |[ν]ους [Οὐ]ιτέ̣λιου Πε̣σκεν͜νιάτου Ş Β̣[…] |ΩΝ 10 Αὐρ. Ἴμενο̣[ς] Δ̣ιοφάνου Πταγι̣[αν(οῦ)] |Εʹ [δ]όντος ἐ[πί]δ̣οσι̣ν. ἐπὶ βραβευτῶ̣[ν] [Α]ὐρ. Ἀ̣λεξ̣άνδρ[ο]υ δὶς Πεσ[κ]εν͜νιάτ[ου] |Λ [κ]αὶ Αὐ[ρ]. Μαξιμιανοῦ Ναξίου Τα[λι-] | Ş 5 As all their extant dedications are made to Artemis or the emperors, Blanco-Pérez 2016, 134 points out that we cannot automatically assume that the Xenoi Tekmoreioi were worshippers of Mên Askaenos, as has been done by nearly all scholars working with this material; Labarre and Özsait 2008, 156–158 n. 2 published a new text from the sanctuary at Karakuyu which mentions the Tekmoreioi of Pheinnaskome, a village in the territory of Antioch; judging from the provenance of the inscription and the dating by the colony’s duoviri, this association, unlike the Xenoi Tekmoreioi, seems to have been closely attached to the sanctuary. 6 See commentary on l. 10. 7 Most of these villages are still unlocated, Blanco-Pérez 2016, 140. 8 Blanco-Pérez 2016, 137–138 notes that this must not necessarily lead to a date as late as 253–268 AD, as previ- ously held, but that it could also fall closer to AD 238. News from the Xenoi Tekmoreioi 69 [μ]ε[τ]τηνοῦ καὶ Μάρκου [Ἴ]μ̣ενος Πε- 15 [σκε]ν͜νιάτου, Αὐρ. Δάμας Τειμοθέου [Αὐρ. Ἀ]λέξανδρος Καρικοῦ{ς} Ἀρασιζε[ύς]. [Αὐρ.] Διόπαν͜τος Τειμολέωνος ΝΑ̣[…] |ΟΣ Ş Γ […c.5…]ο̣ς Μαμ̣ου[τ]η͜νὸς δοὺς ἐ̣πί(δοσιν) Ş Α […c.4…]οα̣το̣ ς̣ Τ̣α̣τ̣ασσεὺς Ἀλεκᾶδος 20 [Αὐρ. Μ]α̣[κεδὼ]ν Ἀθη͜ναίου Ἀ̣[σκαρ]η͜νὸς [4-5]ΝΕΡΟΥΑΣΥΠΟΛΕ?Ω̣ΝΟΣ[…] [4-5]ΕΛΣΛΑΣ Ἀσκλᾶ̣δ̣ος Ὀουνιάτ͜ης […c.10…]ΟΣΤΙΒ̣ΙΑ[1-2]Υ[…c.3…]ΝΑ̣Σ[…c.3…] […c.8-9…]ΝΚΑΣΠ̣Ο̣Γ̣ΕΙΔΗ͜Σ δοὺς ἐπί(δοσιν) | Ş ‘B 25 […c8…]ΤΕΙΜΕΗΣ Σιμικκεὺς […c.4…] short lost short lost Μεν]νέου Τυιτη͜ν[ὸ] |ς Ş ‘A four lines lost 35 …]μπηνὸς Figure 1: Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay from 1912–13, page 25v and 26r. 70 Martin Hallmannsecker Translation (Face A): «For the fortune, victory and eternal continuity of the Lords as well as for the safe- ty of their entire household the Xenoi Tekmoreioi erected the bronze (statue of) Tyche under the ana- grapheus Aur. Papas son of Papas from Ast[ibia?] who made a contribution of 3,501 denarii, under the protanaklites Menneas son of Vitelius from Peskennia, 2[…] denarii, Aur. Imen son of Diophanes from Ptagia who made a contribution, under the brabeutai Aur. Alexandros son of Alexandros from Peskennia and Aur. Maximianos son of Naxios (?) from Talimetta and Marcus son of Imen from Peskennia. Aur. Damas son of Teimotheos, Aur. Alexandros son of Karikos from Arasiza, Aur. Di- opantos son of Teimoleon from Na[…], [..]os from Mamouta who made a contribution of 1,000 de- narii, […]oatos from Tataion son of Alekas, Aur. Makedon son of Athenaios from Askara, … son of Asklas from Oounia … who made a contribution of 2,000 denarii … from Simikka … son of Menne- as from Tyita 1,000 denarii …».