Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.505. Fl. Epipha[nios(?)] Hermias(?) and others make a benefaction(?)

Description: Three fragments of a thick white marble panel; total w: 0.395 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.06. Although the face area does not show it, the three stones do join.

Text: Inscribed on a prepared face, apparently within a raised tabula ansata, of which the lower right corner survives. All the other surfaces are rough.

Letters: very distinctive, averaging 0.03 (Ο is 0.02); Υ has a crossbar, and some elements in Υ, Α, Μ and Κ are not attached. Scroll for abbreviation.

Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrapylon area.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Museum.

Interpretive

[------]
[--- τ]οῦ οἴκου τού[του? ---]
[---]Λ̣Ι̣Λ̣[---] περὶ Φλ(άουιον) Ἐπιφά[νιον? ---]
[--- Ἑ?]ρμίαν ο[ἰκ]εῖοι Βίκτορος Τ̣[---]
[--- λα]μ(προτατ-) ἐπαρχ[---]Τ̣[---]Ι̣Ι̣ΛΙ̣[---]
5[---]Λ̣Ι̣ΣΑΝ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

[------]
[---.]ΟΥΟΙΚΟΥΤΟΥ[...---]
[---]...[---]ΠΕΡΙΦΛΕΠΙΦΑ[....---]
[---.]ΡΜΙΑΝΟ[..]ΕΙΟΙΒΙΚΤΟΡΟΣ.[---]
[---..]ΜΕΠΑΡΧ[---].[---]..Λ.[---]
5[---]..ΣΑΝ      

Apparatus

Below the last line are some small (0.01) scratched letters:

[---] Ι̣Α̣ΦΩΙ̣Ι̣

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

[---] of this house [--- those?] around Flavius Epipha[nios --- and? He]rmias, of the household of Bictor [---] ?clarissimus, prefect [---] they set up(?).

Commentary

Probably to be associated with 1.507.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1963 and 1983, 63.1, 83.110a and 83.110b

Publication: Roueché, ALA 72 and plate xvii, whence AE 1990.967, McCabe, PHI, 1996 613 , ALA 2004 72, IAph2007 1.505.

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment, lines 1-3 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Fragment, lines 1-3 (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Fragment. lines 3-4 (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1983)

Fig. 4. Fragment. lines 3-4 (M. Roueché, 1983)

Fig. 5. Fragment, lower right corner (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1983)

Fig. 6. Fragment, lower right corner (M. Roueché, 1983)

Fig. 7. Assembled fragments (M. Roueché, 1985)