Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.2. Honours for an anonymous contest-president

Description: White marble statue base shaft fragment, w: 0.17 × h: 0.86 × d: at least 0.15; the right side apparently survived (Kubitschek) but the alignment on the squeeze and the drawing suggests that the right ends of the lines are not all complete

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: Letters 0.021 (Reinach)

Date: First century CE (content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: found by the north wall of the Stadium

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1904)

Interpretive

[---]
[c. 20]Λ̣Ν̣
[c. 18] ΕΤΕ[.]
[c. 14ντ]α καὶ ἀρχ̣-
[ιερατεύσαντα ?] τῶν Σεβ̣-
5 [αστῶν c. 6 καὶ ἀ]γωνοθε-
[τήσαντα τοὺς? τῶ]ν Σεβα-
[στῶν ἀγῶνας c. 5 γ]ενόμε-
[νον c. 11] ΚΑ ((stop)) ἀγορα-
[νομήσαντα πολυδαπά?]νως καὶ̣
10 [c. 15 κ]αιροῖς ( vac. )
[c. 17] ΑΙΔΕΙ ( vac. )
[---] Ε̣[---]
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Diplomatic

[---]
[····················]..
[··················]ΕΤΕ[·]
[··············..]ΑΚΑΙΑΡ.
[............]ΤΩΝΣΕ.
5[.....······....]ΓΩΝΟΘΕ
[.............]ΝΣΕΒΑ
[..........·····.]ΕΝΟΜΕ
[...···········]ΚΑ ΑΓΟΡΑ
[.................]ΝΩΣΚΑ.
10[···············.]ΑΙΡΟΙΣ      
[·················]ΑΙΔΕΙ      
[---].[---]
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Apparatus

1: Only in Kubitschek
3: ΑΡ Kubitschek, June 1893, Reinach, 1906 at end, but traces of Χ on Gaudin squeeze.
4: ΣΕ Kubitschek, June 1893, Reinach, 1906 at end, but traces of Β on Gaudin squeeze.
9: ΚΑ Kubitschek, June 1893, Reinach, 1906 at end: but traces of Ι̣ on Gaudin squeeze.
11: ΑΙΛΕΤ K. Kubitschek, June 1893
12: Only Kubitschek shows traces of upper parts of letters; Ε might be Σ or Γ; the following traces are of slanting serifs.

Translation

[e.g. The Council, the People and the Gerousia honoured ?] who has been[...] and has been high-priest [...]of the Augusti [.. , and] contest-organizer [of the contests of] the Augusti, and [...] and [...] and has been agoranomos [ ?lavishly ... ?in difficult] times, and [...]

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.11, Abklatsch 3, a fragment; Gaudin, 1904, no number.

Publication: Reinach, 1906 106 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 352 ; Roueché, PPA 49 , whence PHI PPAphr 49, Smith, 2006 H.167 (listed); IAph2007 12.2.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 11