Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.301. Fragment, possibly dedication

Description: Fragment from upper left corner of a white marble statue base (w: 0.16 × h: 0.115 × d: 0.105).

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.03

Date: Probably first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area: 'N.W. Odeon 67-2, Str.1'

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

Ἀθηνα[γόρ...]
[τ]ο̣ῦ Εὐ[μάχου]
[..]Ξ̣ΑΟ̣[...]
[...]

Diplomatic

ΑΘΗΝΑ[...···]
[.].ΥΕΥ[.....]
[··].Α.[···]
[···]

Apparatus

1: Very probably Athenagoras was in the nominative case, but it cannot be excluded on the evidence available that the block was crowned by a moulding which carried the opening of the text, in which case a son or grandson of Athenagoras may have been recorded.

Translation

[Athenagoras son of Athenagoras?] son of ?Eu[machos ---].

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 67.489

Publication: IAph2007 2.301.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1967)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)