Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.139. Column dedication to Demos

Description: Fragment of blue marble column, complete to right

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.

Letters: No measurements

Date: Hadrianic 117/138 CE (archaeological context, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico: in a dry-stone wall to the south

Original location: Probably Hadrianic Baths, East Court, West portico

Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

[------]
[---τῷ] Δήμῳ
[---Ἀδρά?]σ̣του τοῦ
[---]ΟΥ Ἀρτε-
[---] Γ̣Υ̣ΣΤΟΝ
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---..]ΔΗΜΩ
[---....].ΤΟΥΤΟΥ
[---]ΟΥΑΡΤΕ
[---]..ΣΤΟΝ
[------]

Apparatus

4: is difficult - perhaps Ε rather than Γ, ΤΩΝ rather than ΤΟΝ.

Translation

. . . for] the People [ . . ] son of Adrastos the son of [? . . . ]os, son of Arte[- . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks A,11, (a torn page); B, 23, no. 29 (7), C, 9, no. 13

Publication: Wilson, 2016 8.15 (description).

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger A, 11

Fig. 2. Boulanger B, 23