Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.522. Funerary inscription for M. Aurelius Messouleios Chrysaor.

Description: 'Duobus in lapidibus altero euisdem forma interpolito' (Picenini); the other stone is 12.509.

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'On ye south side in ye wall' (Sherard); 'in eadem parte duobus in lapidibus altero euisdem forma interpolito' (Picenini)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1716)

Interpretive

Μάρκου Αὐρη-
λίου Μεσσου-
ληίου Χρυσά-
ορος ἀρχια-
5τροῦ καὶ Αὐρη-
λίας Σωκρατί-
δος τῆς ἀξιο-
λογωτάτης
γυναικὸς
10 ( vac. 3) αὐτοῦ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΜΑΡΚΟΥΑΥΡΗ
ΛΙΟΥΜΕΣΣΟΥ
ΛΗΙΟΥΧΡΥΣΑ
ΟΡΟΣΑΡΧΙΑ
5ΤΡΟΥΚΑΙΑΥΡΗ
ΛΙΑΣΣΩΚΡΑΤΙ
ΔΟΣΤΗΣΑΞΙΟ
ΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΗΣ
ΓΥΝΑΙΚΟΣ
10      ΑΥΤΟΥ      

Apparatus

This inscription and 12.509 are described by Picenini as being on two separate stones: they could — but need not — form two parts of a single inscription.
2-3: ΧΡΥΣΑ | ΟΡΟΣ Sherard, 1716, Reinach, 1906, Robert, 1983; Χρυσαορ[έω]ς CIG II.2, 1835

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 58; Sherard, 1716 129v with 12.509

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835, presenting 12.522 and 12.509 as one text, 2847 , whence Reinach, 1906 p.124 (lines 3-4), Robert, 1983 224, n.19 (lines 3-4), SEG 33.856, McCabe, PHI, 1996 457 ; IAph2007 12.522.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.17r, at British Library