Description: Two adjoining white marble
blocks from a composite monument, complete above and below, but damaged at edges
(w: 0.81 × h: 0.195 × d: 0.34).
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on the upper blocks of the monument from which these blocks came.
Letters: First century CE; lines 1-4, 0.025, omicron 0.018; line 5, 0.015.
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: One fragment in City,
Village: New Museum excavations; one fragment stray.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
Interpretive
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[στεφαν]ηφορήσαντα δίς ((stop)) καὶ ἀγ[ωνο]θ̣ε̣τ̣ή̣[σαντα? δὶς? τοὺς?]
[τῶν Σε]βαστῶν ἀγῶνας ((stop)) καὶ ἑστιάσαντα τ̣[ὴν βουλὴν καὶ]
[τὸν δῆ]μον καὶ τὴν γερουσίαν ἐγδεύτε[ρον ((stop)) καὶ? ἀγορα-]
[νομήσ]αντα πολυδαπάν[ω]ς ((stop)) τὴν δὲ ἀνάστα[σιν τῆς? τείμης ἐ-]
5 [ποιήσα]το ((stop)) Ἱέραξ κατὰ τὴν Παπύλου [δια]θή[κην] ( vac. )
Diplomatic
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[......]ΗΦΟΡΗΣΑΝΤΑΔΙΣ • ΚΑΙΑΓ[...]....[............]
[.....]ΒΑΣΤΩΝΑΓΩΝΑΣ • ΚΑΙΕΣΤΙΑΣΑΝΤΑ.[...........]
[.....]ΜΟΝΚΑΙΤΗΝΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΓΔΕΥΤΕ[....][........-]
[.....]ΑΝΤΑΠΟΛΥΔΑΠΑΝ[.]Σ • ΤΗΝΔΕΑΝΑΣΤΑ[.............-]
5[......]ΤΟ • ΙΕΡΑΞΚΑΤΑΤΗΝΠΑΠΥΛΟΥ[...]ΘΗ[...]
Apparatus
4-5: τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν προ/νοήσα]το AE
Translation
[e.g. The Council, the People, and the Gerousia honoured ?Papulos] who was twice stephanephorus, and contest-president of
the contests of the Augusti, and feasted the [Council and the ] People, and the Gerousia a second time [ and ?who was agoranomos]
lavishly. The setting up [?of the statue was undertaken] by Hierax, according to the testament of Papulos.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1978 and 79.25
Publication: Roueché, PPA 48 , whence AE 1994.1702, PHI PPAphr 48, Smith, 2006 H.179 (listed); IAph2007 11.5.
