Description: Seven fragments from the lower part of a white marble
statue base shaft (w: 0.52 × d: 0.42) with moulded panels on at least two sides. f: (lines 5-8) Left side moulding (w: 0.18
× h: 0.12 × d: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on the face, with the text occasionally impinging on the moulding.
Letters: lines 1-14, 00.015-0.02; lines 15 ff., 0.02; diairesis on initial I, line 10. Dot for stop, and for abbreviation.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Four fragments, a, d,and f found in the Temple/Church, reused in the Byzantine bema;
two fragments, b and c found reused in a village house ('Maison Khamil', Boulanger).
One fragment, e, seen in the Temple in 1874, but found re-used in a village house in 1983.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: b, c and e in the Museum; a and d in the Temple Church.
Interpretive
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[c. 6 πρ]ωταρχου̣[ντ..]
[...] λ̣ατέως ΑΔ[c. 4]
[...] ἀ̣ρχιερέω̣[ν καὶ]
[στε]φανηφόρω̣[ν ἀπό-]
5γονον ἀνδρῶ[ν πρωτ?-]
τευσάντων ((stop)) [ἐν τῇ πόλει ?]
ταῖς κ̣ορυφαι[οτάτ]α̣ῖ̣ς̣
ἀρχαῖ̣ς καὶ λειτουρ-
[γί]αις ἐξετασθέν-
10των ((stop)) ζήσαντα κοσ-
μίως καὶ τῇ αὑτοῦ
σεμνότητι καὶ ἐ - ( vac. 1)
πεικείᾳ ((stop)) ἐπιλαμ-
πρύναντα τ[ὴ]ν̣ τ̣[οῦ]
15γένους ἀξίαν ((stop)) ἀ-
πολίποντα τῇ ἱερω-
τάτ̣ῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰ-
ωνίο̣υς δ̣ι̣ανομὰς
ἀργυρίου ἀρχαῖα
20((scroll)) (δηνάρια) ͵ε ((scroll))
ἐπιμελησαμέ-
νων τῆς ἀναστά-
σεως τοῦ ἀνδρι-
άντος ((stop)) Οὐλ(πίου) Κλ(αυδίου) Αὐρ(ηλίου)
25Μενίππου Ἀετί
ου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
καί Οὐλπίων Κλ(αυδίων)
Αὐρ(ηλίων) Ζηνᾶ Φωσφο-
ρίου καὶ Μενίπ-
30που Ἀετίου καὶ Ἀτ-
ταλίδος τῶν ἀδελ-
φοτεκνίων αὐτοῦ
καθὼς αὐτὸς δι-
((scroll)) ετάξατο ((scroll))
Diplomatic
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[······..]ΩΤΑΡΧΟ.[..··]
[···].ΑΤΕΩΣΑΔ[····]
[···].ΡΧΙΕΡΕ.[....]
[...]ΦΑΝΗΦΟΡ.[....-]
5ΓΟΝΟΝΑΝΔΡΩ[.....-]
ΤΕΥΣΑΝΤΩΝ • [.........]
ΤΑΙΣ.ΟΡΥΦΑΙ[....]...
ΑΡΧΑ.ΣΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡ
[..]ΑΙΣΕΞΕΤΑΣΘΕΝ
10ΤΩΝ • ΖΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΟΣ
ΜΙΩΣΚΑΙΤΗΑΥΤΟΥ
ΣΕΜΝΟΤΗΤΙΚΑΙΕ-
ΠΕΙΚΕΙΑ • ΕΠΙΛΑΜ
ΠΡΥΝΑΝΤΑΤ[.]..[..]
15ΓΕΝΟΥΣΑΞΙΑΝ • Α
ΠΟΛΙΠΟΝΤΑΤΗΙΕΡΩ
ΤΑ.ΗΒΟΥΛΗΕΙΣΑΙ
ΩΝΙ.ΥΣ..ΑΝΟΜΑΣ
ΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΥΑΡΧΑΙΑ
20 𐆖 ͵Ε
ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΣΑΜΕ
ΝΩΝΤΗΣΑΝΑΣΤΑ
ΣΕΩΣΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙ
ΑΝΤΟΣ • ΟΥΛΚΛΑΥΡ
25ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΑΕΤΙ
ΟΥΤΟΥΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ
ΚΑΙΟΥΛΠΙΩΝΚΛ
ΑΥΡΡΖΗΝΑΦΩΣΦΟ
ΡΙΟΥΚΑΙΜΕΝΙΠ
30ΠΟΥΑΕΤΙΟΥΚΑΙΑΤ
ΤΑΛΙΔΟΣΤΩΝΑΔΕΛ
ΦΟΤΕΚΝΙΩΝΑΥΤΟΥ
ΚΑΘΩΣΑΥΤΟΣΔΙ
ΕΤΑΞΑΤΟ
Apparatus
The letters highlighted were read by Hirschfeld (lines 1-7) and by Kubitschek, when the stone they saw was complete, but not
subsequently.
2: [...] Λ̣ατέως ΑΔ̣[c. 4] IAph2007
5: [ἐκ/γον]ον Cormack, 1964; [ἀπογ/ον]ον Robert, 1966
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] holding office as first archon [ . . . ] descendant of high priests and stephanephoroi, men who were leaders in the
city and tested (i.e. had proved their worth) in the very highest magistracies and liturgies; he having lived in an orderly
way and by his distinction and proper behaviour added to the glory of the reputation of his family; having left to the sacred
Council for eternal distributions 5,000 denarii in the old issue. The erection of the statue was cared for by Ulpius Claudius
Aurelius Menippos Aetius his brother, and the Ulpii Claudii Aurelii Zenas Phosphorios and Menippos Aetius and Attalis, his
brother's children, as he specified.
Bibliography
Transcription: e: Hirschfeld, 1874; b and c: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.V.18, Abklatsch 10, when they still formed a single stone; b: Boulanger, notebooks, B, 41, no.45; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition a: Temple 23; b: 83.71, SBI 113; c: 72.489; d: Temple 9,SBI 94; e: 83.83; f: Temple 26; g: Temple 44
Publication: b and c: MAMA 8 511 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 337 , Smith, 2006 H.185 (listed); e: Cormack, 1964 45 , on which Robert, 1966, 424, note 3 (l. 5), whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.552 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 378 , Smith, 2006 H.186, H.191 (listed); a-g: IAph2007 1.158.
