Description: Triangular white marble
block broken above, with bead and reel below, and egg and dart moulding above on at least two sides
(w: 0.81 × h: 0.60 × d: 1.29); chipped along all edges.
Text:
Inscribed on one face, starting below the moulding. The text was most probably laid out in columns,certainly on the left,
perhaps to the right.
Letters: Poorly aligned, with some letters incompletely cut; 0.028.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Temple/Church: East Temenos, ETI 93
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
Interpretive
[------] [.]ΑΣ εὐταξίας τὸν γυμνασ̣[ί-]
[αρ]χον καὶ στεφανήφορον καὶ [ἀρ-]
χιερέα τὸ δεύτερον τῶν Σ̣[ε-]
βαστῶν καὶ νομοθέτην καὶ ἀγο[νοθέ-]
5την ἄνδρα διὰ πάντος μεγαλομερ̣ω̣[ς]
καὶ ἀνυπερθέτως καὶ φιλοδόξως κα[ὶ]
ἐν τοῖς δυσχρηστοτάτοις καιροῖς πα-
σας τῇ πατρίδι παρεσχημένον τὰς ἐγ̣[δό-]
σ̣εις καὶ λειτουρ̣γ̣ία̣ις ( vac. ) [------]
Diplomatic
[------·]ΑΣΕΥΤΑΞΙΑΣΤΟΝΓΥΜΝΑ.[.-]
[..]ΧΟΝΚΑΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΝΚΑΙ[..-]
ΧΙΕΡΕΑΤΟΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ.[.-]
ΒΑΣΤΩΝΚΑΙΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΗΝΚΑΙΑΓΟ[....-]
5ΤΗΝΑΝΔΡΑΔΙΑΠΑΝΤΟΣΜΕΓΑΛΟΜΕ..[.]
ΚΑΙΑΝΥΠΕΡΘΕΤΩΣΚΑΙΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΩΣΚΑ[.]
ΕΝΤΟΙΣΔΥΣΧΡΗΣΤΟΤΑΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΡΟΙΣΠΑ
ΣΑΣΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙΠΑΡΕΣΧΗΜΕΝΟΝΤΑΣΕ.[..-]
.ΕΙΣΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥ..Ι.ΙΣ [------]
Apparatus
1: The text apparently started in a previous column
9: λειτουργίαις apparently for λειτουργίας; the text may have continued on a third column
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
(AI assisted) ...] of good discipline, the gymnasiarch, and crown-bearer and high-priest of the Augusti for the second time, lawgiver,
and contest-president, a man throughout his life with great generosity, unsurpassedly and with love of glory, even in the
most difficult times, providing all contributions to the fatherland, and public services [? . . . ]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Temple 101
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.189 (listed).
