Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.2. ?Posthumous honours

Description: White marble block (w: 0.43 × h: 0.39, depth not measurable) broken above and to left, complete below.

Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have continued onto a lower block.

Letters: 0.015-0.0175

Date: Probably first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: 'mur derrière la place du marché (Gaudin); 'in a garden wall' (MAMA)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Ι
[---]Θ̣Α̣Ι
[--- ἐ]πῃνῆσ - ( vac. 3)
[θαι? ---]Α καὶ στε-
5[φανῶσθαι --- σ]τεφανο -
[---]μένης
[--- ἡ βου]λὴ καὶ
[ὁ δῆμος --- Μ]ενάν-
[δρ ---]Ν̣ εὖ
10[---]Φ̣ΙΤΟΥ
[---]θ̣άψαι
[---] ἡ βουλὴ
[--- Ἀρ]τεμίδω-
[ρο ---] Ε̣ΤΑΚΑ

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]Ι
[---]..Ι
[---.]ΠΗΝΗΣ-       
[...---]ΑΚΑΙΣΤΕ
5[........---.]ΤΕΦΑΝΟ
[---]ΜΕΝΗΣ
[---....]ΛΗΚΑΙ
[......---.]ΕΝΑΝ
[..---].ΕΥ
10[---].ΙΤΟΥ
[---].ΑΨΑΙ
[---]ΗΒΟΥΛΗ
[---..]ΤΕΜΙΔΩ
[..---].ΤΑΚΑ

Apparatus

3: ΠΗΝΗΣ Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8
5: [--- τῆς? οἰκου]μένης MAMA 8, McCabe, PHI, 1996, IAph2007
9: μευ Reinach, 1906; κ]α̣ὶ εὖ MAMA 8
10: [...]ιτου Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8
11: ἀναγ]ρ̣̣άψαι Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8
13: Ἀρτ]εμίδω- Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8
14: σαν]τα ΚΑ Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Mentions of praise, of crowning, of the Council, of burial, of ?Menandros, of Artemidoros

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 174; Calder, 1934

Publication: Reinach, 1906 108 ; MAMA 8 422 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 34 ; IAph2007 11.2.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Gaudin squeeze, 1904)