Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.613. Honours for Tiberius Claudius Hierokles

Description: A white marble base, with moulding above and below (w: 0.69 × h: 0.34 x depth not measurable) from a composite monument, of which it formed the right side.

Text: Inscribed on the exposed face, i. to the left of ii.

Letters: i. 0.03; ii. line 1, 0.04; lines 2, 3, 0.03; l.4, 0.025; line 5, 0.02. Rho with a second down stroke.

Date: Second half of first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): reused upside down in the southern section of the city wall, excavated in 1975.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1977)

Interpretive

i
[---] Γαίον
[---ο]υς υἱὸν
[---] λεγιῶ-
[νος ---] ( vac. 3)
ii
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
ἐτείμησαν ((star)) Τιβέρι-
ον Κλαύδιον Ἀριστο-
κλέους υἱὸν Κυρίνᾳ ( vac. 2)
5( vac. 3) Ἱεροκ[λέα] ( vac. 6)

Diplomatic

i
[---]ΓΑΙΟΝ
[---.]ΥΣΥΙΟΝ
[---]ΛΕΓΙΩ
[...---]      
ii
ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ
ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ * ΤΙΒΕΡΙ
ΟΝΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝΑΡΙΣΤΟ
ΚΛΕΟΥΣΥΙΟΝΚΥΡΙΝΑ    
5      ΙΕΡΟΚ[...]            

Translation

i. [--- honoured?] Gaius [ son of ? ---], of legion [---]

ii. The Council and the People honoured Tiberius Claudius Hierok[les] son of Aristokles, of the tribe Quirina.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 111

Publication: Smith, 2006 H.104, H.105 (listed); IAph2007 12.613, whence AE 2007.1414.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)