Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.301. Honours for Sextus Appuleius

Description: White marble statue base shaft (w: 0.62 × h: 0.76 × d: 0.55); badly worn and chipped at all edges

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Line 1, 0.025; lines 2-3, 0.03.

Date: 23-15 BCE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): fallen from the inner face of the eastern stretch, north of the East Gate, near 12.318, 12.305

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

( vac. 4) ὁ δ[ῆ]μος ( vac. 4)
Σέξτον Ἀππολήϊον
τὸν [ἀ]νθύπατον ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

        ΟΔ[.]ΜΟΣ        
ΣΕΞΤΟΝΑΠΠΟΛΗΙΟΝ
ΤΟΝ[.]ΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΝ  

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

The People set up this statue of Sextus Appuleius, the proconsul.

Commentary

Sextus Appuleius, PIR A 961, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1778

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1973, Walls 106

Publication: Reynolds, 1982 44 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.390 , AE 1984.879 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 238 , Smith, 2006 H.37 (listed), IAph2007 12.301.

Images

Fig. 1. Stone (M. Roueché, 1975)

Fig. 2. Text (M. Roueché, 1975)