Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.703. Sculptor's signature

Description: Fragment from the lower edge of a piece of white marble, plausibly to be seen as part of a statue plinth ( w: 0.09 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.10).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Line 1, 0.015; line 2, 0.001.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon: East Area, in topsoil.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[Ἀπολλώνι]ος Χρ̣[υσίππου]
[Ἀστὴρ ἐ]ποίησε̣[ν]

Diplomatic

[........]ΟΣΧ.[.......]
[......]ΠΟΙΗΣ.[.]

Apparatus

1-2: [---] ΟΣΧΙ [---/--- ἐπ]οίησε̣[ν---] IAph2007

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[Apolloni]os [Aster, son of] Ch[rysippos], made (this)

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.472

Publication: Erim and Reynolds, 1989 11 , whence SEG 40.934 ; IAph2007 2.703.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)