Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.101. Letter from Gordian III (fragment)

Description: Fragment of white marble without edges (w: 0.17 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.09).

Text: Two texts inscribed on the face: line 1 from the first, lines 2 ff from the second.

Letters: Second to third centuries C.E.; lines 1-3, 0.022; l.4, 0.025; lines 6-7, 0.02.

Date: 238-244 A.D. (reign, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: north parodos area

Original location: Theatre: North parodos

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[---]ΝΑΜ[---]
[αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Γ]ορδιαν̣[ὸς Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστὸς? --- Ἀφροδεισιέων]
[τοῖς ἄρχουσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ?] χαίρειν [---]
[---]Λ̣ΕΩΣ̣[---]
5[---]ΩΡΕΩ[---]
[---]ΚΑΤ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]ΝΑΜ[---]
[...............................]ΟΡΔΙΑ.[........................---............]
[..............................]ΧΑΙΡΕΙΝ[---]
[---].ΕΩ.[---]
5[---]ΩΡΕΩ[---]
[---]ΚΑΤ[---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: Omitted

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

Line 1 must be the final line of a previous document; the second document carried the titles of Gordian III and an opening formula

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 76.11

Publication: Reynolds, 1982 23 and 24 whence SEG 32.1097, McCabe, PHI, 1996 58 ; IAph2007 8.101.

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