Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.27. Commemoration for Kolotron

Description: White marble seat.

Text: Graffito on the upper face; below, two busts.

Letters: No measurements

Date: Fifth - seventh century CE (content, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, on the south-east rim of the Pool

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, Pool

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((Cross)) Κολοτρον προταυράριοϲ
οὗ ὁ θεὸς μνήϲετε

Diplomatic

ΚΟΛΟΤΡΟΝΠΡΟΤΑΥΡΑΡΙΟϹ
ΟΥΟΘΕΟΣΜΝΗϹΕΤΕ

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2016

Kolotron, head goldworker (protaurios), whom God shall remember

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2018a

Kolotron, the first gold-smith, whom God shall remember

Translation (tr)

Translation source: Smith, 2018

Kolotron, baş altın ustası (protaurios), Tanrı tarafından hatırlanacaktır

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, I 16.20

Smith, 2016 29 (mention, photograph), Chaniotis, 2018a 79, note 9, whence SEG 66.1166; Smith, 2018 265-6 (photograph, plate 3), whence IAM 2019.124, AE 2018.1616, SEG 68.947 (mention); Chaniotis, 2024 P33.

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