Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.656. Funerary fragment

Description: Right upper corner of a moulded white marble panel, probably reused, since there are traces of another moulding on the reverse side (w: 0.33 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.49).

Text: Inscribed across the moulding and the inset face.

Letters: 0.015

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): excavations inner face, trench 3.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

[---]Ε̣Ν̣[.]
[--- μηδὲ?]ν̣ ψηφοφ-
[ορίᾳ? ---]ια τῶν ΛΑ-
[---]Ν τὴν εἴσπρα-
5[ξιν --- βούλα?]ρχος καὶ οἱ ἄρ-
[χοντες? --- ἀντίγραφον τῆς ἐπι]γραφῆς ἀπε-
[τέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον? ἐπὶ στεφανηφ]ό̣ρου τὸ ζ ΛΑ
[---] ((scroll)) ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---]..[·]
[---....].ΨΗΦΟΦ
[....---]ΙΑΤΩΝΛΑ
[---]ΝΤΗΝΕΙΣΠΡΑ
5[...---.....]ΡΧΟΣΚΑΙΟΙΑΡ
[......---................]ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕ
[................................].ΡΟΥΤΟΖΛΑ
[---]       

Apparatus

1: Τhere is some doubt whether these really are traces of letters, or just a phenomenon of the damage
5: For ψηφοφορία being used for alienation cf. 12.26 || Final Ρ has bowl separated from upright
7: Perhaps the month Λά[φριος

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . nothing] (scil. should be alienated) by voting [ . . . ] nor by [ . . . ] the penalty [should be exacted by the ?boul]arch and the archons [ . . . ; a copy ] of the inscription has been deposited [ in the land-registry/the archives] in the 7th stephanephorate of La[- . . . (or) [when x was ] stephanephoros for the 7th time, in the month La[- . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 75.331

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)