Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.533. Honours for Aelia Laevilla

Description: No description; presumably a statue base

Text: No description

Letters: No measurements

Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature, titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: south of the east gate 'to ye south of ye east gate, on ye wall' (Sherard) near 12.325, 12.307

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1705)

Interpretive

Αἰλίαν Λαιβίλλαν
Ἀσίας ἀρχιέρειαν
καὶ κοσμήτειραν τῆς
Ἐφεσίας Ἀρτέμιδος
5 καὶ ἀρχιέρειαν τῆς
λαμπροτάτης Ἀφρο-
δισι̣έ̣ων πόλεως
γυναῖκα γενομένην
Σεπτιμίου Ὑψικλέους
10 ( vac. 6) ἀρχιερέως ( vac. )
( vac. 1 line)
Σεπτιμία Αιλία Φλα
[..]Ι Λαιβίλλα [.] αἱ θυγατέ̣ρε̣ς

Diplomatic

ΑΙΛΙΑΝΛΑΙΒΙΛΛΑΝ
ΑΣΙΑΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΝ
ΚΑΙΚΟΣΜΗΤΕΙΡΑΝΤΗΣ
ΕΦΕΣΙΑΣΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟΣ
5ΚΑΙΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΝΤΗΣ
ΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣΑΦΡΟ
ΔΙΣ..ΩΝΠΟΛΕΩΣ
ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΝ
ΣΕΠΤΙΜΙΟΥΥΨΙΚΛΕΟΥΣ
10            ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ      
     vacat
ΣΕΠΤΙΜΙΑΑΙΛΙΑΦΛΑ
[··]ΙΛΑΙΒΙΛΛΑ[·]ΑΙΘΥΓΑΤ.Ρ.Σ

Apparatus

7: ΣΕΙΩΝ Sherard, 1705
11-12: It is not clear whether the stops in the MS after each name indicate stops on the stone or missing letters. Boeckh restored Φλα[βία] Λαιβίλλα[ι]
12: ΤΗΡΗΣ

English translation

Translation source: CMR

(scil. Statue of )Aelia Laevilla, High Priestess of Asia and kosmeiteira of Ephesian Artemis, and High Priestess of the most illustrious city of the Aphrodisians; who was the wife of Septimius Hypsikles, High Priest. (Dedicated by) Septimia Aelia Fla[via and ...] Laevilla, her daughters.

Bibliography

Transcription: Sherard, 1705 16

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2823 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 225 , Smith, 2006 H.241 (listed); IAph2007 12.533.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6v, at British Library