Description: Upper part of a white marble
statue base shaft with moulded panels on at least two sides (w: 0.55 × h: 0.54 × d: 0.36), damaged above and broken away below.
Text:
Inscribed on the face (w: 0.35 × h: 0.42), which is very weathered.
Letters: 0.02; apex on initial A, line 2.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Temple/Church: probably reused in the south side of the Byzantine bema-rail
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
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[ πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει-]
τουργίας [ἐκτελέ?-]
σαντος ((stop)) ἀναθ̣έ̣[ντος]
δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατί[στῃ]
β̣ουλ̣ῇ ((scroll)) καὶ τῷ σ̣[ε-]
5μνοτάτῳ̣ καὶ ἀρχ[αι-]
οτάτῳ̣ σ̣υνεδρίῳ
τῶν χ̣ρυσοφόρων
ν̣ε̣ο̣π̣οιῶν εἰς αἰω-
νί̣ους κλή̣ρ̣ους ἀρ-
10γύριον γεν̣όμενον
καὶ αὐτὸν βουλευ-
τήν ((stop)) ἐλεωνήσαντα
καὶ νε̣οπυήσαντα
φιλοτείμ̣ως ((star)) καὶ
15[παραφυλ]ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣τ̣α̣
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Diplomatic
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[................-]
ΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ[......-]
ΣΑΝΤΟΣ • ΑΝΑ..[....]
ΔΕΚΑΙΤΗΚΡΑΤΙ[...]
.ΟΥ.Η ΚΑΙΤΩ.[.-]
5ΜΝΟΤΑΤ.ΚΑΙΑΡΧ[..-]
ΟΤΑΤ..ΥΝΕΔΡΙΩ
ΤΩΝ.ΡΥΣΟΦΟΡΩΝ
....ΟΙΩΝΕΙΣΑΙΩ
Ν.ΟΥΣΚΛ..ΟΥΣΑΡ
10ΓΥΡΙΟΝΓΕ.ΟΜΕΝΟΝ
ΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΝΒΟΥΛΕΥ
ΤΗΝ • ΕΛΕΩΝΗΣΑΝΤΑ
ΚΑΙΝ.ΟΠΥΗΣΑΝΤΑ
ΦΙΛΟΤΕΙ.ΩΣ * ΚΑΙ
15[.......]......
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Apparatus
The letters underlined were seen by earlier readers, but not by the NYU expedition.
1-3: [πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει]/ τουργίας [ἐκτελέ]/σαντος ἀναθ[έντος]/ δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατίστῃ/ βούλῃ MAMA 8
3: σαντος ἀναθ[έντος] Kubitschek, June 1893; [ . . . .]ΟΣΑΝΤΑΦ[ . . . . .] Reinach, 1906 We read Σ stop ΑΝ[
15: [ . . . . . ]ΑΡΞΑΝΤA Reinach, 1906
English translation
Translation source:
... who had] filled [?all magistracies and] liturgies and having dedicated money to the most powerful council and the most
holy and ancient commission of the gold-wearing neopoioi (?temple-builders) with a view to perpetual distributions by lot, he himself having been, with distinction, a councillor,
?a provider of oil, a neopoios; and having ?guarded [...
German translation
Translation source: Laum, 1914
(lines 4-10)... dem erhabensten und altewürdigsten Kollegium der durch Goldgewandung ausgezeichneten Tempelverwalter zur
Verlosing auf ewige Zeit Geld . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.21, Abklatsch 68; Gaudin, 1904, 48; Calder, 1934, ; New York University expedition, SBI 104
Publication: Reinach, 1906 86 , whence Laum, 1914 115 (lines -10) , and discussed by Robert, Études Anatoliennes 317; MAMA 8 523, from Calder and from Kubitschek, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 362 , Smith, 2006 H.169 (listed); IAph2007 1.161.
