Description:
White marble
block, complete, but with the surface broken away to left and below (w: 1.56 × h: 0.51 × d: 0.60).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02-0.025
Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, East stretch (south part): east of village, inner face, near
12.328, 12.314
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1974)
Interpretive
[ἔδ]οξεν τῇ βουλῇ γν̣[ώμη]
[στ]ρατηγῶν καὶ γραμματέ̣[ω]ς̣
[δή]μου Δημέου τοῦ Μενε-
[κρά]του ( vac. 2) ἐπεὶ Ἀπφιὰς Τιμο-
5[θέ]ου τῶν πολιτίδων
[γυ]νὴ δὲ Ἀγελάου τοῦ Με-
[νε]σθέως τὰ νῦν μετήλλα-
[κχε] τὸν βίον ( vac. 1) δεδόχθαι ἐ-
[πῃν]ῆ̣σθαι αὐτὴν καὶ μετηλ-
10[λακ]χ̣υῖαν καὶ ἐπικηδεῦσαι
[δημ]οσίᾳ καὶ ἐσστεφανῶσ-
[θαι ὑ]πὸ τοῦ δήμου χρυσῷ
[στεφ]άνῳ ζήσασαν εὐτά-
[κτως κ]α̣ὶ̣ κοσμίως καὶ ἐνα-
15[ρέτως παρηγ]ορ̣[ῆσθα]ι̣ δ̣ὲ̣
[κα]ὶ̣ Ἀ̣γ̣[έλαον Μενεσθέως]
[τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς]
Diplomatic
[..]ΟΞΕΝΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΓ.[...]
[..]ΡΑΤΗΓΩΝΚΑΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤ.[.].
[..]ΜΟΥΔΗΜΕΟΥΤΟΥΜΕΝΕ
[...]ΤΟΥ ΕΠΕΙΑΠΦΙΑΣΤΙΜΟ
5[..]ΟΥΤΩΝΠΟΛΙΤΙΔΩΝ
[..]ΝΗΔΕΑΓΕΛΑΟΥΤΟΥΜΕ
[..]ΣΘΕΩΣΤΑΝΥΝΜΕΤΗΛΛΑ
[...]ΤΟΝΒΙΟΝ ΔΕΔΟΧΘΑΙΕ
[...].ΣΘΑΙΑΥΤΗΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ
10[...].ΥΙΑΝΚΑΙΕΠΙΚΗΔΕΥΣΑΙ
[...]ΟΣΙΑΚΑΙΕΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΣ
[....]ΠΟΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥΧΡΥΣΩ
[....]ΑΝΩΖΗΣΑΣΑΝΕΥΤΑ
[.....]..ΚΟΣΜΙΩΣΚΑΙΕΝΑ
15[..........]Ο.[....]...
[..]...[..............]
[.............]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Decision of the Council, proposal of the generals and of Demeas son of Menekrates, secretary of the People: since Apphias,
daughter of Timotheos, one of the women citizens, and wife of Agelaos son of Menestheus, has now departed this life, the decision
was to praise her also/even after death and to give her a public funeral, and for the People to crown her with a gold crown,
she having lived in a well-regulated and decorous and virtuous manner, [and for her husband,] Ag[elaos son of Menestheur,
to be con]soled.
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1973
Publication: MAMA 8 407 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 229-230, McCabe, PHI, 1996 13 ; IAph2007 12.309.
