Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.4. Building dedication to Aphrodite and emperors

Description: Thirteen white marble architrave blocks (each w: 2.84 × h: 0.29 × d: 1.04) which consist of cornice and three fasciae. On one block, on the top, a gameboard was cut, 4.5

Text: Inscribed only on the uppermost fascia.

Letters: 0.095

Date: 14 - 29 CE (reign)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: North portico, at the west end

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora: North portico, along the north side

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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| ( vac. 2) Ἀφροδίτηι καὶ | Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Θεῶι | [Σεβαστῶι Διὶ Πατρῴωι] καὶ | Ἀυτοκράτορι Τιβερίωι Καίσα[ρι] | [Θεο]ῦ Σεβαστοῦ υἱῶι Σε | βαστῶι ((stop)) καὶ ((stop)) Ἰουλίαι Σεβασ | τῆι ((stop)) καὶ τῶι Δήμωι τὴν στόα[ν] | ( vac. 2) Διογένης Μενάνδρου τοῦ | [Δ]ιογένους τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρ̣ | [ου καὶ c. 13 ἱερ] | ηα Ἀφροδίτης ((stop)) καὶ ((stop)) Μένανδ | [ρος ---]
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[---]ΑΙ̣Ι̣ΑΛ[---]
iii
[---]ΤΑ[---]
iv
[---]ΤΙ̣[---]

Diplomatic

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|     ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΙΚΑΙ | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΘΕΩΙ | [..................]ΚΑΙ | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΤΙΒΕΡΙΩΙΚΑΙΣΑ[..] | [...]ΥΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥΥΙΩΙΣΕ | ΒΑΣΤΩΙ • ΚΑΙ • ΙΟΥΛΙΑΙΣΕΒΑΣ | ΤΗΙ • ΚΑΙΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙΤΗΝΣΤΟΑ[.] |     ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΣΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥ | [.]ΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩ. | [.....·············...] | ΗΑΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ • ΚΑΙ • ΜΕΝΑΝΔ | [...---]
ii
[---]Α..ΑΛ[---]
iii
[---]ΤΑ[---]
iv
[---]Τ.[---]

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024

To Aphrodite and Imperator Caesar Divus Augustus Zeus Patroios and to Imperator Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of Divus Augustus and to Iulia Augusta and to the People Diogenes, son of Menandros, grandson of Diogenes, great-grandson of Artemidoros and [ . . . ] priestess of Aphrodite and Menandros [ . . . ] (dedicated) the stoa . . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Jacopi, 1937-38; New York University expedition with further fragments, 1986-8

Publication: Jacopi, 1940 1 , whence BE 1948.211 ; Reynolds, 1980 6 , whence SEG 30.1244 , AE 1980.870 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 104 ; IAph2007 4.4; Chaniotis, 2024 1

Images

Fig. 1. Block d., part (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. Block d., part (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 3. Block f. (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 4. Block f. (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 5. Block g., left part (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 6. Block i. (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 7. Block k. (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 8. Fragment ii. (M. Roueché, 1985)


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