Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.3. Building dedication to an emperor

Description: White marble architrave block, slightly chipped on the upper edge and at both sides (w: 2.05 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.11).

Text: Inscribed on the external face on two fasciae; the text was clearly continued on the adjacent block.

Letters: 0.06; B with closed lower bowl.

Date: Early second century CE (terminology, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: fallen in the south west corner

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora: South Portico or West Portico

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

( vac. 1) Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι θεῷ Σεβαστῷ π | [ατρὶ πατρίδος?---]
( vac. 2) Ἀντίπατρος πριμοπειλάριος συ | [ν---]

Diplomatic

  ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΘΕΩΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΠ | [............---]
    ΑΝΤΙΠΑΤΡΟΣΠΡΙΜΟΠΕΙΛΑΡΙΟΣΣΥ | [.---]

Apparatus

1: At end, Π[ . . . IAph2007

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024

To Imperator Caesar Divus Augustus [father of the fatherland? [ . . . ] Antipatros, a primipilarius, [together with . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1969, Portico 2

Publication: Reynolds, 1980 7 , whence SEG 30.1255 , AE 1980.871 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 102 ; IAph2007 4.3; Chaniotis, 2024 5.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)