Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.75. Fragmentary honours

Description: A white marble fragment from a statue base, with upper edge and upper part of right side surviving (w: 0.32 × h: 0.60 × d: 0.16)

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.025; cross in circle for stop. Rho with a tail.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Apollonia (1885) Aphrodisias: City, Village in 1893; in the house of Hadji Dergalioglou Mustafa in 1904

Original location: Apollonia

Last recorded location: Findspot (1904)

Interpretive

[ἡ βουλ]ὴ̣ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
[ἐτείμ]ησαν Κάλλιπ-
[πον Μη]τροδώρου
[τοῦ Κα]λ̣λίππου Κορ - ((stop))
5[c. 5] τ̣αῖς καλλίσ-
[ταις κα]ὶ̣ μεγίστα̣ι̣[ς]
[τειμαῖ]ς, ἄνδρα γ̣[έ-]
[νους πρ]ώτου ζ̣[ήσ-]
[αντα] πρὸς ἀ̣[ρετὴν?]
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Diplomatic

[.....].ΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ
[.....]ΗΣΑΝΚΑΛΛΙΠ
[.....]ΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΥ
[.....].ΛΙΠΠΟΥΚΟΡ-
5[·····].ΑΙΣΚΑΛΛΙΣ
[......].ΜΕΓΙΣΤ..[.]
[......]ΣΑΝΔΡΑ.[.-]
[......]ΩΤΟΥ.[..-]
[....]ΠΡΟΣ.[.....]
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Apparatus

The careful drawing by Reichel shows some extra traces
4: Καλ]λίππου Paris and Holleaux, 1885, Reinach, 1906 Stop only recorded by Reichel

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

[The Council] and the People [honou]red Kallipp[os, son of Me]trodoros, [son of Ka]llippos Kor[-], with the fin[est and] greate[st honou]rs; a man of a fi[rst] fam[ily ?having lived for virtue . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Paris and Holleaux, 1884, at Medet; Reichel, 1893, R.I.13, at Aphrodisias; Gaudin, 1904, 62, at Aphrodisias

Publication: Paris and Holleaux, 1885 29 ; Reinach, 1906 59, whence Robert, La Carie 157, McCabe, PHI, 1996 Apollonia Salbake 14 .

Images

Fig. 1. Reichel notebook I, 13