Description: 'An inscription from a pedestal'; 'A statue base' (Bailie).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: No measurements.
Date: ? After 212 A.D. (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, Village: 'near the amphitheatre';
'virgultis paene obruto incidi dum iter a theatro ad vicum Gheyerah facerem' Bailie.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1842)
Interpretive
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τὸν ἀξιολογώτατον
πρῶτον ἄρχοντα δὶς
ταμίαν γραμματέα
δήμου δὶς ἀρχινεω-
5ποιὸν τῆς θεοῦ Ἀφρο-
δείτης πολλάκις ἀγορα-
νόμον καὶ πάσας τὰς
μεγίστας ἀρχὰς [ἐκ-]
τελέσαντα [κ]αὶ ἐ[ν]
10 ταῖς λοιπαῖς ἐπ[ι-]
δόσεσιν χρήσιμ[α π]ρ[α-]
ξαντα τῇ πατρίδι [σ]υν-
γ[ε]νῆ Τιβερίου Κλ[αυ-]
δίου Αὐρηλ[ίου] Κ[απ]ε-
15τωλείνο[υ---]
Diplomatic
[---]
ΤΟΝΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΝ
ΠΡΩΤΟΝΑΡΧΟΝΤΑΔΙΣ
ΤΑΜΙΑΝΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑ
ΔΗΜΟΥΔΙΣΑΡΧΙΝΕΩ
5ΠΟΙΟΝΤΗΣΘΕΟΥΑΦΡΟ
ΔΕΙΤΗΣΠΟΛΛΑΚΙΣΑΓΟΡΑ
ΝΟΜΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΣΑΣΤΑΣ
ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΣΑΡΧΑΣ[..-]
ΤΕΛΕΣΑΝΤΑ[.]ΑΙΕ[.]
10ΤΑΙΣΛΟΙΠΑΙΣΕΠ[.-]
ΔΟΣΕΣΙΝΧΡΗΣΙΜ[..]Ρ[.-]
ΞΑΝΤΑΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ[.]ΥΝ
Γ[.]ΝΗΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥΚΛ[..-]
ΔΙΟΥΑΥΡΗΛ[...]Κ[..]Ε
15ΤΩΛΕΙΝΟ[.---]
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
...]the most noteworthy, chief archon twice, treasurer, secretary of the People twice, chief neopoios of the goddess Aphrodite several times, agoranomos, having held all the highest offices and served his homeland usefully
on all the remaining occasions for benefactions, a relation of Tiberius Claudius Aurelius Kapitoleinos[...
English translation
Translation source: Bailie, 1843
The most estimable Chief Archon, twice Quaestor, Registrar 0f the people, twice Chief-Trustee Of-the-temple of the goddess
Aphro dite, on several occasions Aedile, and who had discharged the duties of the highest magistracies; who had also in his
other official capacities performed good service to the city of his birth; a kinsman of Tiberius Claudius Aurelius Capetolinus
. . .
Bibliography
Transcription: Bailie, 1842: 'in truth, I may be said to have excavated in search of it, it lay so concealed in rubbish and underwood'.
Publication: Bailie, 1843 p.34 and 82 (description) , Bailie, 1846 61 , whence Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1596bis , McCabe, PHI, 1996 349 , Smith, 2006 H.180 (listed); IAph2007 11.57.