Description: Five white marble
fragments from a long feature with moulding above a cornice (ave. h: 0.55 × d: 0.30). Width, from left to right: a, 0.63;
b, 0.34; c, 0.53; d, 1.03; e, 1.11; f,. 1.30.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.07-0.075.
Date: Julio-Claudian (prosopography, terminology)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Two blocks (e. and f.) from the right end found reused in the Walls, South-east stretch, south of the East Gate, near 12.711, 12.539, 12.524; three more found during excavation of the Theatre:
b. in Theatre V, 1967; a. in Theatre VI, 1968;
c.and d. in Parodos area, 1969.
Original location: Theatre
Last recorded location: e.and f. still in situ; newer fragments (a–d) in Museum.
Interpretive
Ἀφροδίτ̣[ῃ θεο] | ῖς Σ[εβαστ]οῖς τῶι Δήμωι [c. 27 καὶ τὴν κ] | ερκεῖδα καὶ τὰς ψε | λίδας Ἀριστο[κλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου]
Μολοσσ[ὸς φιλό] | δοξ[ος καὶ φ]ιλόπολις καὶ Κ̣[άικος Ἀρτεμιδώρου Παπίας ἐργεπιστα] | τήσαντος Ἑρμᾶ | Ἀριστοκλέο[υς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου]
κατὰ τὰ[ς Μολο] | σσ[οῦ τοῦ θ]ρέψαντος αὐτ[οῦ διαθήκας προσεπηγγελμένου καὶ τὸ τρί] | τ̣ον διάζωμα τοῦ | θεάτρου ( vac. )
Diplomatic
ΑΦΡΟΔΙ.[....] | ΙΣΣ[.....]ΟΙΣΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ[···························.......] | ΕΡΚΕΙΔΑΚΑΙΤΑΣΨΕ | ΛΙΔΑΣΑΡΙΣΤΟ[...............]
ΜΟΛΟΣΣ[......] | ΔΟΞ[......]ΙΛΟΠΟΛΙΣΚΑΙ.[...............................] | ΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΡΜΑ | ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟ[................]
ΚΑΤΑΤΑ[.....] | ΣΣ[......]ΡΕΨΑΝΤΟΣΑΥΤ[..................................] | .ΟΝΔΙΑΖΩΜΑΤΟΥ | ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ
Apparatus
The extent of the missing space can be determined by comparison with the wording of 8.108.
The 2007 edition overstated the visible text at the beginning of the lines. IAph2007
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
For Aphrodite, the gods Augusti, the People [c. 27 and the] block of seats and the vaults: Aristokles Molossos, [son of Artemidoros], (entitled) lover of glory and lover of
the city, and K[aikos Papias, son of Artemidoros] (scil. gave them); Hermas son of Aristokles [the son of Artemidoros] supervised the work in accordance with the [will] of Molossos,
his foster-father, [and also promised the third] bank of seats in the auditorium.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1991
To Aphrodite, the deified Augusti, the People [c. 27 and the] block of seats and the vaults (scil. were given and dedicated by) Aristokles Molossos, son of Artemidoros, and K[aikos Papias, son of Artemidoros]; Hermas son
of Aristokles [son of Artemidoros] supervised the work according to the will of Molossos, his foster-father, and also promised
the third bank of seats (?) in the auditorium.
Bibliography
Transcription: The blocks in the walls (e. and f.) Picenini, 1705 33v, whence Sherard, 1705 45; Deering, 1812 p.7, no. 30; Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842; Loew, 1841; Le Bas, 1843 (f only); Waddington, 1850; Kubitschek, June 1893 xxx; Gaudin, 1904 121, 122; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition e and f, together with three further fragments : a. 68.709, b. 67.216, c. and d. 69.351.
Publication: e. and f. CIG II.2, 1835 2755 and 2808 ; Fellows, 1841 19 whence CIG II.3, 1843 p. 1109; Bailie, 1846 67 ; Franz, 1847 a.13 (mention) ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 592 (f) and 1586 (e and f) ; Reinach, 1906 132 ; MAMA 8 435a, 435b , whence Robert, 1966 127-128 (l. 3), Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.396 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 99 . All fragments published by Reynolds, 1991 A.5 , whence SEG 41.915 ; IAph2007 8.113.
