Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.243. ?Honours

Description: White marble statue base ?or cornice block, broken to left (w: 0.74 × h: 0.74 × d: 0.34) with moulding above broken away; there is a clamp hole in the right side.

Text: Inscribed on face (w: 0.685 × h: 0.34), which is cracked down the middle, badly abraded to the right and broken away to left.

Letters: ? Second century CE; line 2, 0.045; line 3, 0.035; line 4, 0.03

Date: ? Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, relocating fragments

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1981)

Interpretive

[---]Δ̣[---]
[---]ιας Ὑψικλίδο̣ς
[. Αυρ?]η̣λίας Ἰουλίας̣ [Ἀ]π̣φ[ί]α̣ς ( vac. 2)
[---]Σ θυγατρός ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---].[---]
[---]ΙΑΣΥΨΙΚΛΙΔ.Σ
...].ΛΙΑΣΙΟΥΛΙΑ.[.].Φ[.].Σ    
[---]ΣΘΥΓΑΤΡΟΣ      

Apparatus

1: Above line 2, letter 4, there may be a trace of another letter, but it is very uncertain.
2: Ὑψικλίδη̣ς IAph2007
4: ? καὶ τῆς πόλεω]ς

Translation

[...] of –ia Hypsiklis [...] of [Aur]elia Julia Apphia [...] daughter

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1974, 74.7

Publication: IAph2007 8.243.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)

Fig. 2. Face (NYU, 1974)