Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.109. Dedication to ?Good Fortune

Description: Small white marble stele (w: 0.13 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.95), damaged above and below, with a square base carrying a nude male full frontal figure, shown from the knees up, arms broken away, with a thick neck and perhaps no head.

Text: Inscribed on the face of the base supporting the figure, which is damaged to left and right.

Letters: Line 1, 0.012, line 2, 0.008.

Date: Probably first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: 'P. of T. SE 86-1'.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1989)

Interpretive

[Ἐπ?]αφρόδ̣[ειτος]
[Τύ?]χῃ Ἀγ̣[αθῇ?]

Diplomatic

[..]ΑΦΡΟ.[.....]
[..]ΧΗΑ.[...]

Apparatus

1: ((stop)) Ἀφροδ̣[ίτῃ ..] IAph2007; [Ἐπ?]αφρόδ̣[ειτος] Chaniotis, 2024
2: ( vac. 3) ΧΗΑΝ̣[c. 4] IAph2007; [Τύ?]χῃ Ἀγ[αθῇ?] Chaniotis, 2024

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

? Ep]aphrod[eitos], to Good Fortune

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

To Aphrodite(?) [---] dedicated(?)

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 86.28

Publication: IAph2007 4.109; Chaniotis, 2024 32.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)