Description: White marble panelled block (w: 1.11 × h: 0.86 × d: 0.40) with a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 0.85 × h: 0.65), whose handles must have been completed on adjacent blocks. The upper left corner is broken away, and the bottom moulding is chipped along the edge; there are deep grooves, probably natural, on the face in the area of lines 12 and 13, which the letter-cutter had to avoid.

Text: Inscribed on one face within the tabella.

Letters: 0.03. diairetic dots in lines 2, ΤΟΙΣ · ΤΑ · ΑΝΑ, 6: ·Α·ΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ, 7, accompanied by small superscript bars on ΚΑ·Ι·ΚΟΣ, both occurrences. Dot for stop in line 8; erasure in line 1.

Date: Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre

Original location: Theatre

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

For Aphrodite and the Augusti, the buttresses and the stairways, the ?paving (?panelling). the blocks of seats, the vaults and all the seats: Aristocles Molossos Kaikos, son of Artemidoros, and Kaikos Papias, son of Artemidoros (gave them); Hermas supervised the work in accordance with the will of Molossos, his foster-father, and promised also the third bank of seats (?) in the theatre auditorium from the income of Molossos' estate.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1991

To Aphrodite and the deified Augusti, the buttresses and the stairways, the ?paving (?panelling). the blocks of seats, the vaults and all the seats (scil. were given and dedicated) by Aristokles Molossos Kaikos (?), son of Artemidoros, and Kaikos Papias, son of Artemidoros; Hermas supervised the work in accordance with the will of Molossos, his foster-father, and promised also the third bank of seats (?) in the theatre auditorium from the income of Molossos' estate.

French translation

Translation source: AE

À Aphrodite et aux Augustes, les soutènements et les escaliers et les pavements (ou placages?) et les blocs de sièges et les voutes et tous les gradins, (donnés par) Aristoclès Molossos Kaikos fils d'Artemidoros et Kaikos Papias fils d'Artemidoros. Hermas a dirigé les travaux conformément au testament de Molossos son père nourricier, et a promis d'ajouter la troisieme série de gradins du théâtre, sur les revenus des biens de Molossos. .

Commentary

One of a group of texts: 8.113, 8.111, 8.112, 8.108 and 12.543; cf also 8.82, 8.82

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