Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.38. Boundary marker, set up by C. Julius Zoilos

Description: A block, broken above and very damaged (H w: 0.60 × h: 0.62 × d: 0.32).

Text: Inscribed on the face; there appears to be a large rosette below the text.

Letters: First century BCE – First century CE; 0.025

Date: Late Republican or Augustan (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South area: 'Vor der Südmauer'.

Original location: Temple/Church Temenos.

Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)

Interpretive

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καὶ [ἡ σ]ύ̣ν̣κ̣λητ[ο]ς καὶ ὁ δῆ̣[μος]
ὁ Ῥωμαίω[ν] καθὼς καὶ τὰ φιλάν̣-
θρ[ω]πα κ̣[αὶ] δ̣[ε]λ̣τογραφήματα
κα̣[ὶ] ἐ̣πι[κρίμ]ματα περιέχει ἀνέσ-
5τησεν ( vac. 1) δὲ τ[οὺ]ς [ὅρου]ς Γάϊος
[Ἰο]ύλ[ιο]ς [Ζ]ω̣[ΐλ]ος ὁ ἱερεὺς τ̣ῆς Ἀ-
φροδίτης ( vac. 3).

Diplomatic

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ΚΑΙ[..]...ΛΗΤ[.]ΣΚΑΙΟΔ.[...]
ΟΡΩΜΑΙΩ[.]ΚΑΘΩΣΚΑΙΤΑΦΙΛΑ.
ΘΡ[.]ΠΑ.[..].[.].ΤΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΑΤΑ
Κ.[.].ΠΙ[....]ΜΑΤΑΠΕΡΙΕΧΕΙΑΝΕΣ
5ΤΗΣΕΝ  ΔΕΤ[..]Σ[....]ΣΓΑΙΟΣ
[..]ΥΛ[..]Σ[.].[..]ΟΣΟΙΕΡΕΥΣ.ΗΣΑ
ΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ      

Apparatus

4: ἐπι[τάγμ]ατα Cormack, 1964, IAph2007; ἐπι[κρίμ]ατα Robert, 1966
5: τ[οὺ]ς [θεοὺ]ς Cormack, 1964; τ[οὺ]ς [ὅρου]ς Robert, 1966

Translation

[This area is the sacred asylum as defined by the great Caesar, the Dictator, and his son Imperator Caesar] and the Senate and the people of Rome, as is also contained in the grants of privilege, the public documents and decrees. C. Julius Zoilos priest of Aphrodite set up the boundary stones.

Commentary

For the text compare 1.1, the right side of a pair to this boundary marker.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.35, Abklatsch 53

Publication: Cormack, 1964 16 , whence extensively reedited by Robert, 1966 401-412, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.552 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.388, AE 1967.487 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 380 ; IAph2007 1.38.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 35