Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.126. Honours for anonymous

Description: White marble block cut down for re-use (w: 0.55 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.30); an upper moulding (perhaps inscribed) has been cut away.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: re-used in a late wall in Ambulacrum.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Χ̣Ι̣ΟΡΟ̣ΥΙ̣Ο̣Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣[---]
[---]Ο̣Υ τὸν γυμνασίαρχον̣ [---]
[---]Ν ἀρχιερέα ἱερῶν θεῶ̣[ν Σεβαστῶν?---]
[---]Λ̣ΙΩΝ διὰ βίου καὶ ἱερ̣[έα ---]
5[---]Ι̣[..]Ο̣Ν̣[.]Ο̣Λ̣ΟΣΛ̣Ν̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]..ΟΡ.Υ.....[---]
[---].ΥΤΟΝΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΟ.[---]
[---]ΝΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΙΕΡΩΝΘΕ.[.........---]
[---].ΙΩΝΔΙΑΒΙΟΥΚΑΙΙΕ.[..---]
5[---].[··]..[·]..ΟΣ..[---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: Perhaps from the patronymic section of the honorand's name
3: The term for emperors could be Σεβαστῶν or Καισάρων
4: The first letter could be Α or Δ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . civic bodies honoured so and-so, having served as] gymnasiarch [ . . . ] high-priest of the sacred divine [Emperors . . . ]? for life, and priest of [ . . .]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 67.212

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)


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