Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.169. Fragment of honours

Description: Right side fragment from a plain marble block (w: 0.16 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.09).

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Elaborately serifed; uneven in size and spacing; 0.02.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Loose find in Museum; perhaps in Temple/Church North Temenos area.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]ΣΕ̣ [.]
[---]τῇ πα[τ-]
[ρίδι? ---] Ι̣ προσ-
[---]Τ̣ΟΥΣ
5[---]Ο̣Ν ( vac. 1)
[---] ( vac. 1 line)

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]Σ.[·]
[---]ΤΗΠΑ[.-]
[....---].ΠΡΟΣ
[---].ΟΥΣ
5[---].Ν  
[---]     vacat

Apparatus

1: either letter could be Ε or Σ.

Translation

[---] to (scil. his or her) country [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Museum 110

Publication: IAph2007 1.169.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)