Description: Approximately seventeen fragments of a plain white marble
statue base shaft (maximum h: 0.70, approx. w: 0.75, maximum d: 0.35); non-adjoining fragment k. (no dimensions).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Distinctive; 0.03
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, Water Channel area excavations
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1981)
Interpretive
ἡ βουλ[ὴ κ]α̣ὶ̣ ὁ̣ [δῆ]μος καὶ ἡ γε-
ρουσία ἐτε[ίμη]σα̣ν καὶ μετηλ-
λ̣ακχ̣ό̣[τ]α π[άσ]αι[ς] τ̣α[ῖ]ς μέγισ-
τ̣[αις τείμαις] ((star)) Μ̣[έναν]δρον
5Εὐ [c. 16] νους
Εὐσ[...] Ρ̣[c. 10]Υ̣ ((stop)) παῖδα
τὴν [ἡ]λ̣ικ[ί]αν Ε[c. 6]ΑΣ̣ ὁμοί-
ας τοῖς πα̣ππ̣οι[ς ἐνδ]ε̣ίξαντα
περὶ τὴν πατρίδ[α εὐ]ε̣ργ[ε]σίας
10φθασθέντα [ὑ]π̣ὸ̣ τοῦ δαί[μ]ονος
( vac. ) k
[------]
[---]Τ[---]
[---]Σ̣Τ[---]
[---]ΣΚ[---]
[---]Λ̣Π[---]
[------]
Diplomatic
ΗΒΟΥΛ[..]...[..]ΜΟΣΚΑΙΗΓΕ
ΡΟΥΣΙΑΕΤΕ[...]Σ.ΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ
.ΑΚ..[.]ΑΠ[..]ΑΙ[.].Α[.]ΣΜΕΓΙΣ
.[..........] * .[....]ΔΡΟΝ
5ΕΥ[················]ΝΟΥΣ
ΕΥΣ[···].[··········]. • ΠΑΙΔΑ
ΤΗΝ[.].ΙΚ[.]ΑΝΕ[······]Α.ΟΜΟΙ
ΑΣΤΟΙΣΠ.Π.ΟΙ[....].ΙΞΑΝΤΑ
ΠΕΡΙΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΙΔ[...].ΡΓ[.]ΣΙΑΣ
10ΦΘΑΣΘΕΝΤΑ[.]..ΤΟΥΔΑΙ[.]ΟΝΟΣ
vacat k
[------]
[---]Τ[---]
[---].Τ[---]
[---]ΣΚ[---]
[---].Π[---]
[------]
Apparatus
2: a lower cross-bar: Σ or Ε or Ω (?)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, fragments found over several years from 1961, 63.357 (fragment d) and unnumbered fragments.
