Description: Three frieze blocks: a, in two fragments (length, together, 0.78) has a space with a small moulding above, at the left end,
before the text; it has the assembly mark Η̣Α. The other two blocks have no assembly marks; b, broken to the left, is 0.75; c, broken at the right, is
0.47. Despite the assembly marks, the left end seems to join the right end of 8.38.
Text:
Inscribed in three lines on the fascia.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; dot for stop
Date: Second century CE (lettering, institutions)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Theatre: stage area
Original location:
Theatre: stage, proskeneion frieze.
Last recorded location: Findspot: restored on the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth blocks from the north; all three blocks are damaged.
Interpretive
Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ̣μ̣ος ἐτείμησαν Γ | [άιον] Ὁσίδιο[ν Ἰουλι]α̣νὸν φιλόπατριν καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀνα | θέντα χρήματα εἰς ἀγῶν[ας c. 5 ε-]
τηρικοὺς καὶ τῇ [θ]ε̣<ᾳ> Ἀφροδίτῃ κατ[α | λιπ]όντα̣ [ἀρ]γύρεα χρυσένπαιστα δηλούμενα διὰ τῆ | ς διαθη̣κῆς αὐτοῦ ((stop)) τὸ
δὲ [εἰς τὴν τεί?-]
μην τοῦ ΑΝΛ̣Ο̣[.]Ο[..] Ε̣Γ̣Η̣Γ̣ | [c. 12]ῶν προσόδων ἐργεπισ̣[τα]τ̣ή̣σαντος Ἀνδρο | [ν]ε̣ί̣κου τοῦ Παρδαλᾶ τ[οῦ Παπίου?]
Diplomatic
ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔ..ΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΓ | [....]ΟΣΙΔΙΟ[......].ΝΟΝΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΝΚΑΙΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΑΝΑ | ΘΕΝΤΑΧΡΗΜΑΤΑΕΙΣΑΓΩΝ[..·····.-]
ΤΗΡΙΚΟΥΣΚΑΙΤΗ[.].ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΚΑΤ[....]ΟΝΤ.[..]ΓΥΡΕΑΧΡΥΣΕΝΠΑΙΣΤΑΔΗΛΟΥΜΕΝΑΔΙΑΤΗ | ΣΔΙΑΘ.ΚΗΣΑΥΤΟΥ • ΤΟΔΕ[.........-]
ΜΗΝΤΟΥΑΝ..[·]Ο[··].... | [············]ΩΝΠΡΟΣΟΔΩΝΕΡΓΕΠΙ.[..]..ΣΑΝΤΟΣΑΝΔΡΟ | [.]..ΚΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΡΔΑΛΑΤ[........]
Apparatus
2: κατ[αλιπ]|όν[τα Roueché, PPA, IAph2007; ΘΜΚΗ
3: ἀνα̣θ̣[ήματος]? or perhaps ἀνδ̣ρ̣[ιάντος]. At the end of the line presumably a patronymic, or possibly an office.
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
The Council and the People (honoured) Gaius Hosidius Iulianos, a lover of his country and a benefactor, who dedicated money
for contests [ on a ?-year] cycle and to the goddess Aphrodite bequeathed (offerings) of silver inlaid with gold as set out
in his will. The [?money ] for the price of the [?offering ?he gave from ...] income; the work was overseen by Andronikos
son of Pardalas [?son of Papias].
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 71.175 and an unnumbered block; a further fragment 88.k)
Publication: Roueché, PPA 55b , whence PHI PPAphr 55, Smith, 2006 H.110 (listed); IAph2007 8.39.
