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 Σεβαστ | οῖς τῶι Δήμωι | [c. 27 καὶ τὴν κ] | ερκεῖδα καὶ τὰς ψε | λίδας Ἀριστο[κλῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρου]
Μολοσσ[ὸς φιλό] | δοξος 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.[....] | ΙΣΣΕΒΑΣΤ | ΟΙΣΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ | [···························.......] | ΕΡΚΕΙΔΑΚΑΙΤΑΣΨΕ | ΛΙΔΑΣΑΡΙΣΤΟ[...............]
ΜΟΛΟΣΣ[......] | ΔΟΞΟΣΚΑΙΦ | ΙΛΟΠΟΛΙΣΚΑΙ. | [...............................] | ΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΡΜΑ | ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟ[................]
ΚΑΤΑΤΑ[.....] | ΣΣ[..]ΤΟΥΘ | ΡΕΨΑΝΤΟΣΑΥΤ | [..................................] | .ΟΝΔΙΑΖΩΜΑΤΟΥ | ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ
Apparatus
The extent of the missing space can be determined by comparison with the wording of 8.108.
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.
