Dedicatory/honorary inscription on base to Apollo Didymeus
and Artemis Pythie by technitai from Asia working at temple of
Didyma for Meniskos Melanos, ambassador to Augustus concerning
asylia of Apollo Didymeus; early imperial: Haussoullier, RPh 23,
1899, 148-9, no. 29; Haussoullier, Milet 264-6; OGIS 472;
*IDidyma 107.
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IDid 107
| 1 | [οἱ] ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀσίας τεχνεῖται |
| οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὸν ἐν Διδύ̣- | |
| μοις ναὸν v Μενίσκον Μέλα̣- | |
| νος φύσει δὲ Ζωπύρου, ἱερο- | |
| 5 | νίκην, νικήσαντα τὰ Διδύμηα |
| τρίς, γυμνασιαρχήσαντα α̣[ὑ]- | |
| τῶν πρῶτον καὶ τὰς λοιπ̣[ὰς] | |
| ἐπιτελέσαντα αὑτοῖ[ς κα]- | |
| θ’ ὑπερβολὴν φιλοδοξίας, [πρεσ]- | |
| 10 | [β]εύσαντα πρὸς τὸν Σεβασ[τὸν] |
| ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀσυλίας τοῦ Διδυ- | |
| μέως Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ τῶν τῆς̣ | |
| πόλεως δικαίων, τειμηθέντα | |
| ὑπό τε τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ τοῦ δήμου̣ | |
| 15 | τοῦ Μιλησίων καὶ τῆς γερου- |
| σίας χρυσαῖς εἰκόσι καὶ ἀν- | |
| δριᾶσιν καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις με- | |
| γίσταις τειμαῖς, ἀπόγονον | |
| ὄντα Λυκομήδους βασιλέ- | |
| 20 | ως, ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα καὶ εὐνοίας |
| τῆς εἰς αὑτοὺς Ἀπόλλωνι | |
| [³¹Διδυμῖ]³¹ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι Πυ- | |
| %⁸¹θείηι. |