Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.119. Consolatory honours

Description: Right end of a white marble block w: 0.45 × h: 0.175 × d: 0.53

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.015, with traces of red paint in the trenches

Date: First century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, South Area: 'So.Bu.6, at 1.77'

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[--- ἐτείμη]σ̣εν Ἑρμόλαον ( vac. 1)
[---Ἑρ]μολάου παῖδα τὴν ( vac. 1)
[ἡλικίαν ---μετηλ]λ̣αχο[τα] ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---......].ΕΝΕΡΜΟΛΑΟΝ  
[---..]ΜΟΛΑΟΥΠΑΙΔΑΤΗΝ  
[.......---.....].ΑΧΟ[..]      

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] honoured Hermolaos[ son of . . . son of Her]molaos, a boy [in age . . . ] deceased.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 63.685

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)