Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.318. Honours for Hierokles

Description: Plain white marble statue base, with a variety of clamp-holes on top (w: 0.73 × h: 0.265 × d: 0.59).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Lines 4,5, 0.025; lines 2,3, 0.02; final omicron in lines 1, 2 smaller; last letter in line 4 crowded; dot for stop.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon, in the basin, with 4.317

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

ἡ γερουσία καὶ ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
ἐτείμησαν ((stop)) Ἱεροκλέα ((stop)) Ἱεροκλέους
τοῦ Ἀδράστου ((stop)) ἄνδρα καλὸν καὶ
ἀγαθὸν διὰ προγόνων φιλαγάθως
5 διατεθέντα τῇ γερουσίᾳ ((scroll))

Diplomatic

ΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΚΑΙΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ
ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ ΙΕΡΟΚΛΕΑ ΙΕΡΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ
ΤΟΥΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥ ΑΝΔΡΑΚΑΛΟΝΚΑΙ
ΑΓΑΘΟΝΔΙΑΠΡΟΓΟΝΩΝΦΙΛΑΓΑΘΩΣ
5ΔΙΑΤΕΘΕΝΤΑΤΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

The Gerousia and the Council and the People honoured Hierokles son of Hierokles the son of Adrastos, a fine and good man by ancestral tradition, benevolently disposed to the Gerousia.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 87.372, SBI 77.

Publication: Smith, 2006 H.103 (listed); Thomas, 2024 171, 5 (mention)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)