Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.12. Honours probably for Kallikrates son of Molossos

Description: Part of a white marble stele, broken away above and to the left (w: 0.55 × h: 1.05 × d: 0.12-0.15). with a relief below of a lion apparently with hind legs on a base, a dog below, and a winged victory to the right, her hand upholding the lower right corner of a moulded panel.

Text: Inscribed on the moulded panel above.

Letters: First to second century CE; 0.03.

Date: Late first or early second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch by the Stadium

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1980)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]( vac. 1 line)
[---]Ι̣π̣ρ̣ο̣γόνων
[---τ]ῶν ναῶ̣ν τῶν
[---ἐν Ἀφ?]ροδεισιάδι ( vac. 2)

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]     vacat
[---]....ΓΟΝΩΝ
[---.]ΩΝΝΑ.ΝΤΩΝ
[---....]ΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΑΔΙ    

Apparatus

We do not know how many lines are lost above line 1.
1: the leftmost stroke is compatible with Ν, perhaps, then, from τῶν, but not certainly so

Translation

. . . ] of his ancestors [ . . ? . . .] of the temples the [ . . ? . . .] ?in Aphrodisias.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1979, Museum 49.

Publication: IAph2007 12.12.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)