Description: Four joining fragments of a white marble
panel-stele with moulded edge (w: 0.565 × h: 0.81 × d: 0.14);
lower part lost. There is a rough inset area at the top, smooth panels at the sides.
Text:
Inscribed on the face (w: 0.38 × h: 0.72).
The text, with the name, must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: 0.023; stop is a dot; first word in line 1 perhaps ex. corr.
Date: Mid-later second century CE (nomenclature, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico:
3 fragments found by Boulanger
'devant la grande entrée', and a fourth 'puits place du bazar'.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
[Φλαβίαν? Ἀπφίαν]
γυναῖκα Μάρ(κου) ((stop))
Οὐλ(πίου) ((stop)) Καρμ(ινίου) ((stop)) Κλαυ-
διανοῦ Ἀσίας
ἀρχιερέως καὶ
5 ἀρχιερέως τῆς
πατρίδος ἐγγό-
νην Ἀσίας ἀρχ[ι-]
ερέων καὶ Ἀσί-
ας ἀρχιέρειαν
10 καὶ ἀρχιέρειαν
τῆς πατρίδος
καὶ ἱέρειαν τῆς
θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης
ἀνεψιὰν συν-
15κλητικῶν κα̣[ὶ]
ὑπατικῶν κα̣ὶ
τῶν συν[κ]τισάν
των τὴν [πό]λ[ιν]
Diplomatic
[.............]
ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΜΑΡ •
ΟΥΛ • ΚΑΡΜ • ΚΛΑΥ
ΔΙΑΝΟΥΑΣΙΑΣ
ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣΚΑΙ
5ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣΤΗΣ
ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣΕΓΓΟ
ΝΗΝΑΣΙΑΣΑΡΧ[.-]
ΕΡΕΩΝΚΑΙΑΣΙ
ΑΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΝ
10ΚΑΙΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΝ
ΤΗΣΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ
ΚΑΙΙΕΡΕΙΑΝΤΗΣ
ΘΕΟΥΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ
ΑΝΕΨΙΑΝΣΥΝ
15ΚΛΗΤΙΚΩΝΚ.[.]
ΥΠΑΤΙΚΩΝΚ.Ι
ΤΩΝΣΥΝ[.]ΤΙΣΑΝ
ΤΩΝΤΗΝ[..]Λ[..]
Apparatus
Letters seen by Boulanger but not by us are highlighted.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
? x honoured Flavia Apphia], wife of Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudianus, High Priest of Asia, and High Priest of his homeland,
granddaughter of High Priests of Asia, and High Priestess of Asia, and High Priestess of her homeland, and Priestess of the
goddess Aphrodite, niece of senatorial and consular (scil. families), and of those who founded the city.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks, A, 57 no.12 whence B, 4-5, no.4; New York University expedition in the old depot, Museum 100
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.230 (listed) ; Smith, 2007 B 5
