Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.529. Fragmentary honours for ?Chaireas

Description: No description; probably a statue base.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: in or near the south wall near 12.523 (=MAMA 549), 12.631.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1705)

Interpretive

[...]
Χαιρέαν σοφισ-
τὴν καθὼς Κλαυ-
δία Καλλικρατεί-
α διετάξατο ((stop)) ((leaf))

Diplomatic

[···]
ΧΑΙΡΕΑΝΣΟΦΙΣ
ΤΗΝΚΑΘΩΣΚΛΑΥ
ΔΙΑΚΑΛΛΙΚΡΑΤΕΙ
ΑΔΙΕΤΑΞΑΤΟ

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[---] Chaireas, sophist, as Claudia Kallikrateia instructed.

French translation

Translation source: Puech, 2002

[---] (scil. statue) du sophiste Chairéas, selon les volontés de Claudia Callicratéia.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 24v and, from Tisser, 64; Sherard, 1705 37.

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2798 , whence Robert, 1966, 395, n.2, McCabe, PHI, 1996 264 , Puech, 2002, 59, Smith, 2006 H.83 (listed); IAph2007 12.529.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.5v, at British Library