Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.319. ?Honours for anonymous

Description: Fragment of a colonnette of dark blue marble (across surviving cord h: 0.15 × diam: 0.13)

Text: Inscribed on the drum

Letters: Probably second century, 0.012; dot for stop

Date: Probably second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area: N. Odeon V, Section III, at 0.37 above datum.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

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[...]Ι̣Ι̣[---]
[...]Ι̣ΤΗΕΑ[---]
[...]ι̣αδι ((stop)) θυ[γάτηρ?...]
[ἀρ?]χ̣ιερέως Ἀ̣[σίας? ναῶν?]
5 [τῶν?] ἐν Περγά[μῳ c. 6]
[καὶ?] Μενανδρί[δος?---]
[ἀρχιερεί?]ας Ἀσίας [---]
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Diplomatic

[------]
[···]..[---]
[···].ΤΗΕΑ[---]
[···].ΑΔΙ ΘΥ[.....···]
[..].ΙΕΡΕΩΣ.[........]
5[...]ΕΝΠΕΡΓΑ[..······]
[...]ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΙ[...---]
[........]ΑΣΑΣΙΑΣ[---]
[------]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] ?daughter [ . . . ] of a ?high priest [?of Asia of the temples] in Pergamon [and of ] Menandris [ . . . ?high priestess] ?of Asia [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 70.5

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)