Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.121. Dedication to Nike

Description: White marble architrave block (w: 2.57 × h: 0.605 × d: 0.42).

Text: Inscribed within a recess in the centre of one side (die, w: 0.44 × h: 0.04); the surface is damaged and the lower edge chipped.

Letters: lightly cut; 0.035.

Date: First to second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora lying in the central area, a little south of the Basilica façade.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Νε̣ί̣κη Σεβαστῶν

Diplomatic

Ν..ΚΗΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝ

Apparatus

1: Ν[ί]κ̣ῃ̣ JMR

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

To the Victory of the Augusti

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024

The Victory of the Augusti

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1968, and catalogued in 1971 (71.85c, Portico of Tiberius 8); found again in 2018, I 18.30

Publication: Chaniotis, 2024 3.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, 1968)

Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, 1968)

Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds, 1968)