Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.407. Verse honours for a governor(?)

Description: Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft ( h: 1.35 × diam: 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.

Date: Fifth century. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the West portico, north, immediately south of 8.410; the fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving.

Original location: Tetrastoon, West portico

Last recorded location: Findspot and Museum.

Interpretive


[c. 13] ἔρνοϲ | [c. 12]Λ̣ΗΟΣ |
[c. 12]ΙΝΟΡΑϹ | [.. ? ..] |
(5) [.. ? ..] | Λ̣[..]ϹΗϹ Ἀ̣φροδ[ίτη]ν̣ |
ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεϲί|πτολιν ἐξελάϲαντα ((leaf))

Diplomatic


[·············]ΕΡΝΟϹ | [············].ΗΟΣ |
[············]ΙΝΟΡΑϹ | [.. ? ..] |
(5) [.. ? ..] | .[··]ϹΗϹ.ΦΡΟΔ[...]. |
ΕΝΦΥΛΙΟΝΔΗΡΙΝΟΛΕϹΙ |ΠΤΟΛΙΝΕΞΕΛΑϹΑΝΤΑ

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

[---] offspring [---] Aphrodite, (scil. he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.

German translation

Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998

. . . der den Zwist unter den Bürgern, den stadtverderbenden, ausgetrieben hat.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, main part 1972, fragment 73.206

Publication: Roueché, ALA 64 and plate xvi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 728 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/26 , LSA 228; ALA 2004 64, IAph2007 8.407.

Images

Fig. 1. Base in position, with 8.410 (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 2. Base (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)

Fig. 3. Detail, left (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 4. Detail, right (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 5. Upper right corner fragment (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1973)

Fig. 6. Fragments assembled (M. Roueché, 1977)