Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.36. Honours for anonymous, contest-president for life of the Gordianea Attalea

Description: White marble statue base shaft

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.25.

Date: Third century, after 238 (titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: upside down in the northern stretch (Sherard); fragment found south of the northeast corner of the wall

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot: complete in 1705, fragment 2001

Interpretive

[---]
[συγκλητι?-]
κὸν ἔγ̣[γονον?]
ὑπατικοῦ̣
τ̣ὸν ἀγων̣ο-
θέτη̣ν̣ διὰ βίου
5 τῶν μεγάλων
νήων
Ἀτταλήων
[τῆς] λαμπρο-
[τάτ]η̣ς̣ Ἀφροδε[ι-]
10[σιέ]ων πόλεως
[τετ?]ελευτη̣[κ]ό-
τ̣α ἐπὶ τῆς β[ασ-]
ειλίδος Ῥώμη[ς]
διακομίσας
15 τὸ πτωμάτι-
ον αὐτοῦ κα-
τ̣έθετο τὸν
φίλον Τιβ(έριος) Κλ(αύδιος)
Εὐτυχιανὸς [καὶ?]
20 τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ ((leaf))

Diplomatic

[---]
[........-]
ΚΟΝΕ.[.....]
ΥΠΑΤΙΚΟ.
.ΟΝΑΓΩ.Ο
ΘΕΤ..ΔΙΑΒΙΟΥ
5ΤΩΝΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ
ΝΗΩΝ
ΑΤΤΑΛΗΩΝ
[...]ΛΑΜΠΡΟ
[...]..ΑΦΡΟΔΕ[.-]
10[...]ΩΝΠΟΛΕΩΣ
[...]ΕΛΕΥΤ.[.]Ο
.ΑΕΠΙΤΗΣΒ[..-]
ΕΙΛΙΔΟΣΡΩΜΗ[.]
ΔΙΑΚΟΜΙΣΑΣ
15ΤΟΠΤΩΜΑΤΙ
ΟΝΑΥΤΟΥΚΑ
.ΕΘΕΤΟΤΟΝ
ΦΙΛΟΝΤΙΒΚΛ
ΕΥΤΥΧΙΑΝΟΣ[...]
20ΤΗΝΕΙΚΟΝΑΑΥΤΟΥ

Apparatus

Underlined letters are on the surviving fragment
1-2: κὸν [.. υἱὸν]/ ὑπατικοῦ IAph2007; ΚΟΝΕ.[. . . .]/ ὑπατικοῦ Chaniotis, 2004
8: ... Λ Sherard, 1705
9: ... ΙΕΑ Sherard, 1705; .. ΙΣ Picenini, 1705, CIG II.2, 1835; At end, nothing after Ε Sherard, 1705
10: .. ΩΝ Sherard, 1705; at end nothing after Σ. Sherard, 1705
11: ΕΛΕΥΤΙ .. Α . ΟΙ .. Sherard, 1705 for Ο, Picenini had Π.
12: ΓΑΕΠΙΤΗΣΒ ... Sherard, 1705
16: ΚΑ . Sherard, 1705
17: Γ . ΕΘ Sherard, 1705

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[... ? senator, son ] of a consular, the contest-president in perpetuity of the great Gordianea Attalea of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians, who died in imperial Rome; having brought back his remains and buried his friend, Tiberius Claudius Eutychianos also (put up) his image

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

[... ? senator, grandson ] of a consular, the contest-president in perpetuity of the great Gordianea Attalea of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians, who died in imperial Rome; having brought back his remains and buried his friend, Tiberius Claudius Eutychianos also (scil. put up) his image

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 18, and, from Tisser, 53v, whence Sherard, 170528; New York University expedition a fragment in 2001, I 01.044

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2801 , whence Liermann, 1889 29 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 578 ; Roueché, PPA 56 , whence PHI PPAphr 56, Smith, 2006 H.178 (listed); IAph2007 12.36; Chaniotis, 2004 7 (a new fragment), whence SEG 54.1035, AE 2004.1447 .

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.12r, at British Library