Description: Shaft of a white marble
statue base; surviving fragment (w: 0.30 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.13).
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded front panel.
Letters: 0.03; circle for stop, lines 12, 14, 18, 19.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South-east stretch: reused in or near the south east stretch of the walls (Sherard, Wood, Bailie); 'in the west wall' Fellows
(presumably in error). Fragment found during excavation of the Bouleuterion/Odeon
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Complete block last seen at findspot; surviving fragment in the Museum (1977)
Interpretive
Πόπλιον Αἴ-
λιον Ἱλαρια-
νὸν ἱππικὸν
Ποπλίου Αἰ-
5λίου Ἀπολλω-
νιανοῦ πρει-
μιπειλαρίου
υἱὸν ((stop)) Ποπλί-
ου ((stop)) Αἰλίου ((stop))
10Ἱλαριανοῦ ὑ-
πατικοῦ ἔκ-
γονον ((stop)) πολ-
λῶν συνκλη-
τικῶν καὶ ὑ-
15πατικῶν συν-
( vac. 3) γενῆ( vac. 3)
Τιβερία Ἰουλί-
α ((stop)) Ἀντωνία Λη-
τωὶς ((stop)) μητὴρ καὶ
20μάμμη συνκλη-
τικῶν ((star)) τὸν
γλυκύτατον ((stop))
( vac. 3) υἱόν ( vac. 3) ((leaf))
Diplomatic
ΠΟΠΛΙΟΝΑΙ
ΛΙΟΝΙΛΑΡΙΑ
ΝΟΝΙΠΠΙΚΟΝ
ΠΟΠΛΙΟΥΑΙ
5ΛΙΟΥΑΠΟΛΛΩ
ΝΙΑΝΟΥΠΡΕΙ
ΜΙΠΕΙΛΑΡΙΟΥ
ΥΙΟΝ • ΠΟΠΛΙ
ΟΥ • ΑΙΛΙΟΥ •
10ΙΛΑΡΙΑΝΟΥΥ
ΠΑΤΙΚΟΥΕΚ
ΓΟΝΟΝ • ΠΟΛ
ΛΩΝΣΥΝΚΛΗ
ΤΙΚΩΝΚΑΙΥ
15ΠΑΤΙΚΩΝΣΥΝ
ΓΕΝΗ
ΤΙΒΕΡΙΑΙΟΥΛΙ
Α • ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΛΗ
ΤΩΙΣ • ΜΗΤΗΡΚΑΙ
20ΜΑΜΜΗΣΥΝΚΛΗ
ΤΙΚΩΝ * ΤΟΝ
ΓΛΥΚΥΤΑΤΟΝ •
ΥΙΟΝ ❦
Apparatus
The letters seen by us have been highlighted.
7: Wood added the E and writes in the margin: The letter interlined is E, which I had forgot in the first writing over; ye two
letters wanting look'd like ΛΗ.
12.14.18.19: Stops shown in Bailie's copy only. Further stops shown in Deering's copy, appear to be annotations ?by Leake.
18-19: ΛΙΤΟΙΣ Sherard, 1705; Λητωίς CIG II.2, 1835, Loew, 1841; ΛΗΤΟΙΣ Le Bas, 1843
23: Leaf in Sherard and Wood's copy.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Publius Aelius Hilarianos, eques romanus, son of Publius Aelius Apollonianos primipilarius, grandson of Publius Aelius Hilarianos consular, relative of many senatorials and consulars.
Tiberia Julia Antonia Letois, mother and grandmother of senatorials, (set up the statue of) her very dear son.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
Publius Aelius Hilarianus, of equestrian rank, son of the [Centurio] Primipilarius Publius Aelius Apollonianus, grandson of
the Consularis Publius Aelius Hilarianus, kinsman of many a Consularis and Senator.
Tiberia Julia Antonia Letois, a mother and aunt of Senators, [erects this in honour of the above P. Ae1. Hilarianus], her
sweetest son.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 28v, and, from Tisser, 55, whence Sherard, 1705 44; Wood, 1750 14, 52, 14, loose page 45; Deering, 1812 5v-6, no.25; Fellows, 1840; Loew, 1841; Bailie, 1842 ; Le Bas, 1843; Waddington, 1850 ; New York University expedition 71.45, a fragment of the upper part of the stone, with part of the first three lines.
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2793 ; Fellows, 1841 40 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 p.1112; Bailie, 1846 63 ; Franz, 1847 a.5 (a correction) ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 595 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 230 , Smith, 2006 H.106 (listed); IAph2007 12.535.
