Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.7. i: Place inscription of Eugraphios phylarchos; ii: Place inscription of Zotikos

Description: White marble column.

Text: i. 1.23 above base of column. ii. Below, and slightly to the right of i, 1.06 above base of column.

Letters: i: clear and fairly regular, carefully cut with simple serifs; lunate sigma; av. 0.035, phi 0.06. ii: simpler, with a thicker trench; cursive omega, square sigma; av. 0.03. The first two letters have been partially erased.

Date: Third-fourth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: North portico, third column from west.

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
[τ]ό̣ποϲ
Εὐγρα-
φίου
φυλάρ-
5χου.
ii
τόποϲ
Ζωτικοῦ
[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

i
[.].ΠΟϹ
ΕΥΓΡΑ
ΦΙΟΥ
ΦΥΛΑΡ
5ΧΟΥ
ii
ΤΟΠΟϹ
ΖΩΤΙΚΟΥ
[---]
[---]

Apparatus

ii: There are other scattered letters of ii.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

(i). Place of Eugraphios, phylarch.

(ii). Place of Zotikos [---].

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA 201 and plate xlii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 392, 393, ALA 2004 201, IAph2007 4.7; Chaniotis, 2024 NS341, NS342.

Images

Fig. 1. View of South Agora, looking north-west

Fig. 2. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 3. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 4. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 5. Scattered letters (M. Roueché, 1985)