Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

3.2. Building inscription by priest of Libertas

Description: Two white marble architrave blocks with moulding and three fasciae. A: Broken below and to the right, damaged to the left, w: 1.75 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.56 B: Complete, w: 2.81 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.56

Text: Inscribed on the upper fascia.

Letters: 0.10

Date: Late first century BCE to early first century CE (textual context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: North Agora, in the North portico

Original location: North Agora, North portico, from the entablature

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

A
[--- ὁ ἱερεὺς τῆς Ἀφροδείτης καὶ τῆς] | Ἐλευθερίας διὰ | [βίου ---]
B
[--- στεφανηφ]ορήσ̣α̣ς̣ τ̣ὸ̣ [---]

Diplomatic

A
[---..........................] | ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑΣΔΙΑ | [....---]
B
[---........]ΟΡΗ.....[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

(A and B):[?C. Julius Zoilos priest of Aphrodite and ] of Eleutheria for [life . . . ] having served as stephanephoros for the [x th time . . .

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

(A): [--- priest] of Libertas for [life ---]

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 1993

(A): [?C. Julius Zoilos priest of Aphrodite and ] of Eleutheria for [life . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition A: I 98.006 ; B: Odeon 12,

Publication: A only: Reynolds, 1982 39 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.388 , AE 1984.878 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 82 ; Smith, 1993 T.4; IAph2007 3.2; A and B: Chaniotis, 2004 12, whence SEG 54.1023, AE 2004.1449, Chaniotis, EBGR 2007.43

Images

Fig. 1. B: Face (M. Roueché, 1994)