Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.124. Honours for Molossos

Description: Damaged rectangular white marble base, with holes for the feet of a statue on top (w: 0.38 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.41).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1965)

Interpretive

[---]Ι̣Η̣[---]
[..] Μολ̣οσσ̣ο̣- [---]-
κι̣ανοῦ καὶ ἐγ̣γ̣[ονος?]
( vac. ) φ̣ι̣λ̣όθε̣ο̣ς̣ ( vac. ) ((#whorl))

Diplomatic

[---]..[---]
[··]ΜΟ.ΟΣ..-[---]
Κ.ΑΝΟΥΚΑΙΕ..[....]
      ...ΟΘ...       #whorl

Apparatus

2: the underdotted letters are very incomplete
3: or ΚΑΙΕΡΜ

Translation

[---] Molossos [son] of [---]cianos and grandson of [---], lover of the ?goddess

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 62.406

Publication: IAph2007 1.124.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)