Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.652. Fragment

Description: White marble fragment without back or edges (w: 0.12 × h: 0.076 × d: 0.036).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Line 1, 0.025; line 2, 0.02

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): clearing outside south wall excavation

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Ρ̣ΙΟ[---]
[---πρ]ὸς ((stop)) ἀ((stop))ρ((stop))ε̣[τὴν---]
[---]Σ̣Τ̣Ο̣[.] Ι̣Μ̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---].ΙΟ[---]
[---..]ΟΣ Α Ρ .[...---]
[---]...[·]..[---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: ρ may be φ
3: The first two letters are just traces of upper crossbars; Σ and Τ are the most probable readings.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] fpr virtue [ . ..

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 77.104.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)