Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.409. Funerary inscription for Flavia Apphia

Description: Plain white marble block, cut away at the top and at the left side; the right end is covered by a block of the city wall at right angles to this short stretch. There is a clamphole with a channel leading up to the lower edge in the left corner sector. (0.46 × 0.63 × depth not measurable)

Text: Inscribed on the visible face.

Letters: 0.025-0.03; slightly elaborated β.

Date: First to second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east Gate: reused in a west-facing stretch of wall at a right angle to the west end of the façade of the tomb

Original location: South East Gate tomb

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[c. 5]+ Ε̣ [.] ( vac. 5)
[Φ]λ(αβία) ((stop)) Ἀπφία ((stop)) γυνὴ ((stop)) Φλ(αβίου) ((stop)) Μ[ι-]
θριδάτου Ἀ ((stop)) γαθοῦ ( vac. 1)
θυγατὴρ ((stop)) Μηνοδό-
5του Βραβέως ((leaf)) ((#whorl)) ((leaf))
( vac. 1 line)

Diplomatic

[·····]·.[·]          
[.]Λ ΑΠΦΙΑ ΓΥΝΗ ΦΛ Μ[.-]
ΘΡΙΔΑΤΟΥΑ ΓΑΘΟΥ  
ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ ΜΗΝΟΔΟ
5ΤΟΥΒΡΑΒΕΩΣ #whorl
     vacat

Apparatus

5: The two marks given as 'leaf', may just be elaborate stops.

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2013b

[---] Flavia Apphia wife of Flavius Mithradates Agathos, daughter of Menodotos Brabeus

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[---] Flavia Apphia wife of Flavius Mithradates son of Agathos, daughter of Menodotos son of Brabeus

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 151

Publication: Reynolds, 1999, B.4 , whence SEG 49.1420, AE 1999.1607; IAph2007 12.409; Chaniotis, 2013b .

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci)