Description:
White marble
statue base shaft (w: 0.56 × h: 1.18 × d: 0.48) with moulded panels on all four sides.
Text:
Inscribed on the front panel.
l. 1 is cut on the upper moulding. The text must have begun on an upper feature, now lost.
Letters: Lines 1-18, 0.0275; lines 19ff, 0.03; Omicron in line 20 cut small.
Date: Late second to third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South-east Gate: Below modern ground level, east of the gate,
with 13.304
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
[ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν? - - - - - - - - - - ]
( vac. 2) Ἀπολλωνίου ( vac. 2)
( vac. 4) ἀρχιερέα ( vac. 4)
ταμίαν πρωτονε-
οποιὸν πρῶτον
5 ἄρχοντα δὶς ( vac. 1)
γραμματέα τοῦ
δήμου δὶς βού-
λαρχον καὶ τὰς
ἄλλας πάσας
10 ἀρχὰς καὶ λει-
τουργίας ἐνδό-
ξως ἀπὸ προγό-
νων ἐκτετελε-
κότα ἄνδρα πρᾶ-
15ον καὶ ἐπ<ι>εικῆ καὶ
ἐν πᾶσιν φιλό-
τειμον περὶ ( vac. 1)
τὴν πατρίδα
( vac. 2 lines)
ἐπιμελησαμένου
20Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Ζηνοβίου
Εἰάσονος ἀρχιε-
ρέως τοῦ γαμ-
βροῦ αὐτοῦ ((scroll))
Diplomatic
[........................ - - - - - - - - - - ]
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑ
ΤΑΜΙΑΝΠΡΩΤΟΝΕ
ΟΠΟΙΟΝΠΡΩΤΟΝ
5ΑΡΧΟΝΤΑΔΙΣ
ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑΤΟΥ
ΔΗΜΟΥΔΙΣΒΟΥ
ΛΑΡΧΟΝΚΑΙΤΑΣ
ΑΛΛΑΣΠΑΣΑΣ
10ΑΡΧΑΣΚΑΙΛΕΙ
ΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣΕΝΔΟ
ΞΩΣΑΠΟΠΡΟΓΟ
ΝΩΝΕΚΤΕΤΕΛΕ
ΚΟΤΑΑΝΔΡΑΠΡΑ
15ΟΝΚΑΙΕΠΕΙΚΗΚΑΙ
ΕΝΠΑΣΙΝΦΙΛΟ
ΤΕΙΜΟΝΠΕΡΙ
ΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ
vacat
ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΥ
20ΜΑΡΑΥΡΖΗΝΟΒΙΟΥ
ΕΙΑΣΟΝΟΣΑΡΧΙΕ
ΡΕΩΣΤΟΥΓΑΜ
ΒΡΟΥΑΥΤΟΥ
Translation
[So and so honoured so and so, son/descendant] of Apollonios, high-priest, treasurer, chief temple-builder, twice chief archon,
twice secretary of the People, chief councillor, who has also carried out all the other offices and liturgies honourably (scil. in a manner inherited) from his forefathers; a kind man and moderate and generous in all matters concerning his fatherland.
Marcus Aurelius Zenobios Jason, high-priest, his brother-in-law , took responsibility (scil. for putting up the monument).
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.32, who did not see line 1; Gaudin, 1904 15; New York University expedition in 1976, 76.184, SBI 30
Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 9 ; Reinach, 1906 77 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 338 , Smith, 2006 H.162 (listed); IAph2007 12.417.
