Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.536. Honours for C. Julius Philippos,

Description: 'Base' (Waddington); if this is complete, it must be a statue base shaft; the text must have begun on an upper feature.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (terminology)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'in terra iacente' Sherard; 'in lapidibus oblongis ad austrum' (Picenini), near 12.515, so the south-east stretch.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1850)

Interpretive

κατὰ τὰ ἐψη-
φισμένα ὑπὸ
τῆς βουλῆς
καὶ τοῦ δήμου
5 Γ(άιον) Ἰούλιον
Φίλιππον
τὸν κράτισ-
τον πατέρα
συνκλητι-
10κοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ
ἐπιτρόπων,
λογιστεύσαν-
τα καὶ τῆς ἡ-
μετέρας πό-
15λεως μετ'εὐ-
νοίας γενό-
μενον ἐν πᾶ-
σιν εὐεργέ-
( vac. 3) την ((leaf))

Diplomatic

ΚΑΤΑΤΑΕΨΗ
ΦΙΣΜΕΝΑΥΠΟ
ΤΗΣΒΟΥΛΗΣ
ΚΑΙΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥ
5ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟΝ
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΝ
ΤΟΝΚΡΑΤΙΣ
ΤΟΝΠΑΤΕΡΑ
ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΙ
10ΚΟΥΚΑΙΑΠΟ
ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΩΝ
ΛΟΓΙΣΤΕΥΣΑΝ
ΤΑΚΑΙΤΗΣΗ
ΜΕΤΕΡΑΣΠΟ
15ΛΕΩΣΜΕΤΕΥ
ΝΟΙΑΣΓΕΝΟ
ΜΕΝΟΝΕΝΠΑ
ΣΙΝΕΥΕΡΓΕ
      ΤΗΝ

Translation

A public body or bodies...] according to what was decreed by the Council and the People (set up the statue of) C(aius) Julius Philippos, v(ir) e(gregius), father of a senator and of former procurators (or ? a former procurator?), who as curator also of our city acted with goodwill and was a benefactor on all occasions.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 28, and, from Tisser, 64v, whence Sherard, 1705 38; Waddington, 1850

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2790 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1609 , whence OGIS 500 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 282 , Smith, 2006 H.45 (listed); IAph2007 12.536.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.7v, at British Library