Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.714. Funerary inscription for MMM. Aur. Cl. Kastor, Papylos and Dionysios

Description: Two adjoining white marble fragments from a block: a, left hand fragment (w: 0.85 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.27); b, right hand fragment, now broken to left (w: 0.39 × h: 0.67 × d: 0.32).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.0175-0.022; line above letter for abbreviation.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (west part): re-used immediately west of the 1975 excavation, near 12.612. 'Dégagement de la porte présumée en face du Gymnase' (Gaudin)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)

Interpretive

τὸ ἡρῶόν ἐστιν προ̣γονικὸν Μάρκων
Αὐρ(ηλίων) Κλ(αυδίων) Κάστορος κα Παπύλου καὶ Διο-
νυσίου τῶν Παπύλου τοῦ Διονυσίου
τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ Π̣α̣π̣ύ̣λ̣ο̣υ̣ κ̣λ̣η̣ρ̣ονόμων δ̣ιαδόχων
5 τε αὐτῶν καθὼς καὶ τὰ ἐνκεχαρ̣αγμένα καὶ
διὰ τοῦ ψηφίσματος δείκνυσιν ((scroll))

Diplomatic

ΤΟΗΡΩΟΝΕΣΤΙΝΠΡ.ΓΟΝΙΚΟΝΜΑΡΚΩΝ
ΑΥΡΚΛΚΑΣΤΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΠΑΠΥΛΟΥΚΑΙΔΙΟ
ΝΥΣΙΟΥΤΩΝΠΑΠΥΛΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ
..............ΟΝΟΜΩΝ.ΙΑΔΟΧΩΝ
5ΤΕΑΥΤΩΝΚΑΘΩΣΚΑΙΤΑΕΝΚΕΧΑ.ΑΓΜΕΝΑΚΑΙ
ΔΙΑΤΟΥΨΗΦΙΣΜΑΤΟΣΔΕΙΚΝΥΣΙΝ

Apparatus

The block was complete when recorded by Gaudin; by the time of the MAMA expedition it was in two fragments: a had lost lines 5 and 6, and b had lost the left side.

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 84; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition

Publication: Reinach, 1906 167 ; MAMA 8 561 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 452 ; IAph2007 12.714.

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment a, lines 1-4 (1975))

Fig. 2. Fragment b, lines 1-6 (M. Roueché, 1975)