Description: Top and right side of a plain white marble
statue base, without moulding (w: 0.28 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.33)
chipped at the corner.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century CE; 0.015; dot for stop; E in line
Date: Second century CE (nomenclature, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Temple/Church
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1981)
Interpretive
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[ - - - ]Ι̣ ( vac. 1) Τ̣ίτον Φ̣λ̣[άβ-]
[ον Τ(ίτου) Φλ(αβίου)] Μενίππου̣ [υἱ-]
[ὸν c. 8] ἄνδρα πατρ[ὸς]
[καὶ προγόνω]ν γυμνασ[ι-]
5[άρχων στεφα]νηφόρων κτ[ίσ-]
[των? καὶ αὐτὸ]ν γυμνασίαρ̣-
[χον στεφαν]ή̣φορον κτίστην
[καὶ? υἱοῦ γυμ]νασιάρχου ( vac. 1) ((stop))
[καὶ στεφανηφό]ρου ((stop)) πατέρα ( vac. 1) ((stop))
10[c. 10 κ]α̣ὶ̣ τὰς ἄλλας
[πάσας ἀρχὰς? κ]α̣ὶ̣ ὑ̣π̣η̣ρ̣ε̣[σίας]
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Diplomatic
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[]. .ΙΤΟΝ..[..-]
[......]ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟ.[..-]
[..········]ΑΝΔΡΑΠΑΤΡ[..]
[..........]ΝΓΥΜΝΑΣ[.-]
5[..........]ΝΗΦΟΡΩΝΚΤ[..-]
[..........]ΝΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑ.
[.........].ΦΟΡΟΝΚΤΙΣΤΗΝ
[..........]ΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΟΥ •
[............]ΡΟΥ • ΠΑΤΕΡΑ •
10[··········.]..ΤΑΣΑΛΛΑΣ
[...........].......[....]
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Apparatus
1: The first upright is not Ν
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
? . . . honoured ] Titus Flavius [ . . . ] son of T. Flavius Menippos, a man whose father [and ancestors] were gymnasiarchs
and stephanephoroi and founders, himself having been a gymnasiarch, stephanephoros and founder, and father [of a son] who
has been a gymnasiarch and stephanephoros. [ He has performed] the other [magistracies and ] public services [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, Temple 100, SBI 19
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.161 (listed)
