Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.136. Panel fragments from temple

Description: Three fragments, not joining, apparently from the same thin white marble panel. a: cut down for reuse in an opus sectile floor, w: 0.11 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.012; b: (w: 0.075 × h: 0.095 × d: 0.01; c: w: 0.11 × h: 0.125 × d: 0.01.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: 0.02-0.025.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Atrium

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

a
[------]
[---]ΑΠ̣[---]
[---]Τ̣ΟΥΙ̣[---]
[------]
b
[------]
[---]Κ̣Δ̣[---]
[---]Η̣ ( vac. 1) [---]
[---]Υ̣Ν[---]
[------]
c
[------]
[---]ΝΝΑ[---]
[--- ἱ]ερεια [---]
[--- γ]υ̣ν̣ή[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

a
[------]
[---]Α.[---]
[---].ΟΥ.[---]
[------]
b
[------]
[---]..[---]
[---].  [---]
[---][---]
[------]
c
[------]
[---]ΝΝΑ[---]
[---.]ΕΡΕΙΑ[---]
[---.]..Η[---]
[------]

Translation

b. line 3, might give part of ΣΥΝ- or ΓΥΝΗ.

c. line 2, gives the word for "priestess", for "priesthood", or for "offering"; line 3 that for "wife".

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 62.399, 62.439, and 62.440

Publication: IAph2007 1.136.

Images

Fig. 1. All three fragments to the right (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Fragment c (M. Roueché, 1977)