Description: Upper right corner of a white marble
block (w: 0.36 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.34).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late Republican or Augustan; ave 0.02. rho in lines 1, 3, 6 has a very small stroke slanting rightwards from the junction
of the bowl with the vertical.
Date: Late Republican or Augustan (lettering, content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find.
Original location: Temple/Church, Temenos
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
[οὗτος? ὁ] [τόπο]ς̣ ἱερὸς ἄσυ-
[λος ὡς? ἔκριναν] ( vac. 1) ὁ μέγας
[Καῖσαρ? ὁ] [δικ]τ̣άτωρ καὶ
[ὁ? υἱὸς αὐτοῦ αὐ]τοκράτωρ
5 [Καῖσαρ καὶ ἡ] [σύ]νκλητος
[καὶ ὁ] [δῆμος ὁ] [Ῥ]ωμαίων
[καθὼς καὶ τὰ] φιλάνθρω-
[πα καὶ δελτογρα]φή-
[ματα καὶ ἐπικρίματα]
10 [περιέχει ἀνέστησεν]
[δὲ τοὺς ὅρους Γάϊος]
[Ἰούλιος Ζωΐλος ὁ] [ἱερεὺς]
[τῆς Ἀφροδείτης]
Diplomatic
[......][....].ΙΕΡΟΣΑΣΥ
[............] ΟΜΕΓΑΣ
[.......][...].ΑΤΩΡΚΑΙ
[............]ΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ
5[..........][..]ΝΚΛΗΤΟΣ
[....][......][.]ΩΜΑΙΩΝ
[..........]ΦΙΛΑΝΘΡΩ
[.............]ΦΗ
[.................]
10[.................]
[................]
[..............][......]
[.............]
Apparatus
For the supplements, compare the partner inscription 1.38.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
[?This area is] the sacred asylum [?as defined by] the great [?Caesar, the] Dictator, and [?his son] Imperator [Caesar and
the ] Senate [and People] of Rome, [as is also contained in the] grants of privilege, the public documents [and decrees. C.
Iulius Zoilos priest of Aphrodite set up the boundary stones.]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 63.596
Publication: Reynolds, 1982 35 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.388 , AE 1984.878 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 379; Smith, 1993 T.5 ; IAph2007 1.1.
