Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.261. Honours for an amicus principum

Description: White marble masonry block (w: 0.22 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.42) with upper and lower edges surviving, and with rough sides; either cut down, or from a composite monument.

Text: Inscribed on the face, which is extremely worn.

Letters: 0.025-0.04; simple, elongated, shallowly cut; similar to those of 5.302.

Date: First half of the fourth century. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, Theatre V

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

[---]Ο̣Μ̣Ν( vac. 1)Ο̣Ι̣ ̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣[---]
[---]φίλον τῶν βα[σιλέων---]

Diplomatic

[---]..Ν  .......[---]
[---]ΦΙΛΟΝΤΩΝΒΑ[......---]

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

[---] friend of the emperors [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1968, 68.401; recatalogued as 74.280.

Publication: Roueché, ALA 15 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 454 (with the wrong lemma) and 665 , LSA 221; ALA 2004 15, IAph2007 8.261.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)