Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.5. Building dedication by C. Julius Zoilos

Description: Eighteen white marble blocks or fragments of drafted masonry with a raised border above (blocks w: 0.80 or 1.18 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.52 or 1.32).

Text: Inscribed in one line on the face, after the drafting had been done; the text impinges on the drafted edges.

Letters: 0.07-0.075.

Date: 28 BCE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, fallen in the Orchestra.

Original location: Theatre: stage building.

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Γάϊος Ἰο[ύλιο]ς Ζωΐ̣λος [θε]οῦ Ἰουλίου υἱ[ο] | ῦ Καίσαρος ἀ[πελεύθερο]ς στεφανοφορήσας τὸ | δέκατον ἑξῆς ( vac. 1) [τὸ] λ̣ογ̣[ήι]ον καὶ τ | ὸ προσκ̣ήν[ι]ο̣ν σὺν τοῖς | ἐν αὐ[τῶι π]ροσκοσμή | μ̣α̣σιν πᾶσιν, ( vac. ) Ἀφροδίτ | ῃ καὶ τ[ῶι Δήμωι]

Diplomatic

ΓΑΙΟΣΙΟ[....]ΣΖΩ.ΛΟΣ[..]ΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΟΥΥΙ[.] | ΥΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΑ[.........]ΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΦΟΡΗΣΑΣΤΟ | ΔΕΚΑΤΟΝΕΞΗΣ  [..].Ο.[..]ΟΝΚΑΙΤ | ΟΠΡΟΣ.ΗΝ[.].ΝΣΥΝΤΟΙΣ | ΕΝΑΥ[....]ΡΟΣΚΟΣΜΗ | ..ΣΙΝΠΑΣΙΝ      ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤ | ΗΚΑΙΤ[.......]

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Caius Julius Zoilos, freedman of the divine Iulius' son Caesar, after being stephanephorus for the tenth time in succession (scil. gave) the stage and the proscenium with all the applied ornaments on it to Aphrodite and the People.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 67.294, 67.447, 70.459, 70.634, 71.419, 71.420, 71.421, 71.170, 71.446, 73.215

Publication: Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1971.609 (mention); Reynolds, 1982 36b , whence SEG 32.1097, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.388; AE 1984.878 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 93 , Smith, 1993 T.2; IAph2007 8.5.

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 4. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 5. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 6. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 7. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)