Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.15. Honours for [Tiberius Claudius Dioge]nes

Description: Right side of a white marble block, statue base, broken above and below (w: 0.287–0.23 × h: 0.695 x depth not measurable).

Text: Inscribed on one face, which has been pitted to facilitate covering with plaster

Letters: 0.023; R for Ρ; Y with slant strokes extended downwards.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-East: "East Geyre" (Kubitschek); "in the market place" (Gaudin); found again built into the wall of a small enclosure at the entrance to the village school, against the stretch of city wall just east of the Museum.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)

Interpretive

[------]
[Τι(βέριον) Κλαύ]διον̣
[Τι(βερίου) Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀ]τ̣τάλου υἱ-
[ὸν Διογέ]νην Ἡφαισ-
[τίων Δι]ογένους
5 [στεφαν?]ηφορικός
[c. 6]οντος ἀδελ-
[( vac. 6)? φ]ον ( vac. 6)

Diplomatic

[------]
[......]ΔΙΟ.
[.....].ΤΑΛΟΥΥΙ
[.......]ΝΗΝΗΦΑΙΣ
[......]ΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
5[......]ΗΦΟΡΙΚΟΣ
[······]ΟΝΤΟΣΑΔΕΛ
[.......]ΟΝ            

Apparatus

1: Διογ/[ένην] Reinach, 1906
3: [ὸν και Κλ(αυδίαν) Τατια]νὴν Reinach, 1906
4: [τίωνος του Δι]ογένους Reinach, 1906
6: ον τῆς Reinach, 1906 'H est regravé sur un O'; Ο over Η JMR

Translation

Hephaistion son of Diogenes, [former Stephan?]ephorus, [and ---] (?) (scil. set up the statue of) [Tiberius Claudius Dioge]nes son of [Tiberius Clau]dius [At]talos, his brother.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.60, Abklatsch XVI; Gaudin, 1904, 25; New York University expedition .

Publication: Reinach, 1906 49 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 295 ; IAph2007 11.15.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)

Fig. 2. Face (Gaudin squeeze, 1904)

Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook III, page 60