Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.127. Honours for anonymous

Description: White marble revetment plaque, broken to left and right, and cut down for re-use (w: 0.35 × h: 0.72 × d: 0.05); an upper moulding (perhaps inscribed) has been cut away.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.035- 0.04

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

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

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

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[--- Θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Σεβαστῷ]
[Θεοῦ Τραϊαν]oῦ Παρθικοῦ υἱῷ Θεοῦ Νε[ρούα υἱωνῷ Τραϊανῷ Ἁδριανῷ]
[---] Ἀ[]ρχιμήδους, δὶς ἀρχιερέω̣ς̣ [---]
[---δ]ώρου τοῦ Εὔφρονος Εὔφρον̣[ος? ---]
[--- ἀ]ν̣εψιοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἡμ̣ε̣τ̣έ̣ρ̣α̣ν̣ [ὑπόσχεσιν?]

Diplomatic

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[..........]OΥΠΑΡΘΙΚΟΥΥΙΩΘΕΟΥΝΕ[.......................]
[---]Α[]ΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣΔΙΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕ..[---]
[---.]ΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΕΥΦΡΟΝΟΣΕΥΦΡΟ.[..---]
[---.].ΕΨΙΟΥΚΑΙΚΑΤΑΤΗΝΗ.......[.........]

Apparatus


French translation

Translation by: AE

À la déesse Aphrodite et à l’Empereur César Auguste, fils du divin Trajan parthique, petit-fils du divin Nerva, Trajan Hadrien [ . . . (étant responsables ?)] Untel fils d’Untel fils d’Archimède, deux fois grand-prêtre, et . . . [---]doros fils d’Euphrôn fils de Euphrôn [ . . . ] et notre cousin aussi conformément à notre promesse [ . . .

Bibliography

Recorded: New York University expedition 2017

Publication: Chaniotis, 2021 p.189, whence AE 2021.1272;

Images

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