Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.305. Dedication to Aphrodite and the People

Description: Block perhaps from the facing of the precinct wall (w: 0.68 × h: 0.77 × d: 0.28).

Text: Inscribed on one face, which has been partially erased.

Letters: Late Republican; 0.02-0.025

Date: First century BCE

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Lying south of the Temple/Church, Temenos.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1966)

Interpretive

Ἀπολλώ⟦ν̣[ι]ο̣[ς]⟧ ⟦[Ἀρτεμι?]⟧-
δώρου τοῦ ⟦[c. 10]
ἀστυνομῆσας ⟦[Ἀ]φροδείτ[ηι]⟧
καὶ τῶι Δήμωι

Diplomatic

ΑΠΟΛΛΩ⟦.[.].[.]⟧⟦[......]⟧
ΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥ⟦[··········]
ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΗΣΑΣ⟦[.]ΦΡΟΔΕΙΤ[..]⟧
ΚΑΙΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Apollonios [son of Artemi]doros having been astynomos, to Aphrodite and the People.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Temple 25

Publication: Reynolds, 1982, 27.6 (mention), whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 157

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)