Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

9.130. Building dedication (?) to emperors

Description: Upper left corner from a composite white marble monument block (w: 0.21 × h: 0.215 × d: 0.06).

Text: Inscribed on one face; the text must have started on a block to the left.

Letters: 0.03

Date: First century CE (lettering, divinities)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: in excavation north of the Sebasteion; WN ROT 82-1, SLE3, 1.37

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[---θε]οῖς Σε[βαστοῖς ---]
[---κα]ὶ Ἑρμί̣[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---] Ε̣Ε̣ [---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---..]ΟΙΣΣΕ[.......---]
[---..]ΙΕΡΜ.[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]..[---]
[------]

Apparatus

2a: There are guidelines, but no letters
3: There may be traces of letters, but these may be decoration

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

For the gods Augusti [ . . . ?dedicated by x] and ?Hermias [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 82.70

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)