Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.6. Posthumous honours for Papylos son of Iason

Description: White marble block (w: 0.57 × h: 0.285 × d: 0.33) with light moulding along the left and bottom edges, chipped on all sides, and worn.

Text: The text is inscribed on the face and impinges on the moulding on the left side.

Letters: 0.025-0.03; small omicrons in lines 2, 3, 4.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre; 'Théatre. Mur de l'immeuble contigu à la Gigontomachie' (Gaudin); found during excavation of the Theatre in 1970

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

( vac. 1) ἡ γερουσία καὶ ἡ βουλ[ὴ]
καὶ ὁ δῆμος ((dash)) ἐτείμησα[ν]
Παπύλον Ἰάσονος τοῦ
Κάστορος γυμνασιαρχ
5σαντα ἐκκ τῶν ἰδίων δ[ι-]
[ετ]ί̣αν λανπρότατα καὶ Σ̣ [..]
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Diplomatic

  ΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΚΑΙΗΒΟΥΛ[.]
ΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑ[.]
ΠΑΠΥΛΟΝΙΑΣΟΝΟΣΤΟΥ
ΚΑΣΤΟΡΟΣΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΗ
5ΣΑΝΤΑΕΚΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΔ[.-]
[..].ΑΝΛΑΝΠΡΟΤΑΤΑΚΑΙ.[··]
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Apparatus

Some letters read by Kubitschek and Reinach are no longer legible.
5-6: δ[ι]/[ἅ]παν Reinach, 1906; δ[ι]/[ετ]ίαν MAMA 8
6: ΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΑ Kubitschek, June 1893 || ΚΛΙ IAph2007; καὶ Reinach, 1906, MAMA 8; ΚΑΙΣ̣ Kubitschek, June 1893

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.52, Abklatsch 32; Gaudin, 1904 22; Calder, 1934 ; New York University expedition, 70.212, SBI 155

Publication: Reinach, 1906 68 ; MAMA 8 488 , whence Robert, 1966 210, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.400, McCabe, PHI, 1996 316 , Smith, 2006 H.133 (listed); IAph2007 11.6.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1970)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)

Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook III, 52