Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.715. Fragmentary honours

Description: Part of a fluted white marble column of oval section, probably cut from an earlier monument from which it retained the right side of an inscribed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.12 × h: 0.235).

Text: Inscribed on one surface.

Letters: 0.017, the last two lines in counter relief; lunate and square epsilon and three types of sigma: lunate, square, and 4-bar.

Date: Second to fourth centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (west part): re-used on the inner face of the southern stretch of the city wall, west of the Theatre exit.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)

Interpretive

[. γυμνα?]σ̣ιάρχου Α̣-
[---] καὶ ἐφηβαρ-
[χου ---]έους καὶ
[---]ο̣ϲ ἐμησ
5[---]ων συν
[---]νίας κα-
[---]Ο̣ΣΦ̣Α̣ΝΙ̣
[--- νι?]κ̣ηφορο̣
[---ο]υμενο-
10[---]ΕΕΜΟΥ( vac. 2)

Diplomatic

.....].ΙΑΡΧΟΥ.
[---]ΚΑΙΕΦΗΒΑΡ
[...---]ΕΟΥΣΚΑΙ
[---].ϹΕΜΗΣ
5[---]ΩΝΣΥΝ
[---]ΝΙΑΣΚΑ
[---].Σ..Ν.
[---..].ΗΦΟΡ.
[---.]ΥΜΕΝΟ
10[---]ΕΕΜΟΥ    

Translation

Mentions of gymnasiarch and ephebarch, not otherwise translatable.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1975, Walls 130

Publication: IAph2007 12.715.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)