Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.318. List of names

Description: Fragment of a white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.18 × h: 9.35 × d: 0.19) cut down for re-use.

Text: Inscribed on one face

Letters: Line 1, 0.035; lines 2, 5, 7, ave. 0.025; remainder, ave. 0.02.

Date: Probably first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area: between Odeon and Temple, a area part of which may have been within the Temple precinct

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[---κ]λ̣ειδ [---]
[---φύ]σ̣ει δὲ Λ̣[---]
[---Ἀγ]έλαος Ρ̣[---]
[---κ]ράτης Ξε̣[ν---]
5[---]λιππος Λε[---]
[---Ξε]νοκράτ[---]
[---Ἀρι]σ̣τέας Ζή̣ [---]
[---καθ' υἱοθ]ε̣σίαν δὲ [--- φύσει δὲ]
[---Ο]Υ Ἀθηνα[γόρ---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---.].ΕΙΔ[---]
[---..].ΕΙΔΕ.[---]
[---..]ΕΛΑΟΣ.[---]
[---.]ΡΑΤΗΣΞ.[.---]
5[---]ΛΙΠΠΟΣΛΕ[---]
[---..]ΝΟΚΡΑΤ[---]
[---...].ΤΕΑΣΖ.[---]
[---........].ΣΙΑΝΔΕ[---.......]
[---.]ΥΑΘΗΝΑ[...---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: [Ἡρακ?]λειδ-
2: Λ might be Α
3: Ρ might be Ε
4: [Ἐπικ?]ράτης
5: [Καλ?]λιππος

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---]klid[es ---] natural son of [---] Agelaos [---]krates Xe[n ---]lippos Le[--- Xe]nokrat[es --- Ari]steas son of Ze[non ---] and by adoption of [--- and natural son] of [---] of Athena[goras ---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 69.300

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)