Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.723. Honorary inscription for Theodotos

Description: Marble block, broken to left: w: 0.365 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.24

Text: Inscribed on the face, within a frame.

Letters: 0.02-0.023.

Date: Late second-first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City Walls: South Gate, against the west passage wall (N1197.0, E 523.0).

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[ὁ δῆμος ἔ]θαψεν Θεόδοτον Ἑρμί-
ου, [ἱερέα Ἑ]σ̣τίας Βουλαίας, ἄνδρα
[καλὸν καὶ] ἀ̣γαθὸν καὶ φιλόπατριν
[διὰ προγό]ν̣ων, ζήσαντα καλῶς
5[καὶ σωφρό]ν̣ως καὶ ἐν φιλομαθίᾳ
[καὶ παιδεί]α̣ι καὶ ἀρετῆι πάσηι

Diplomatic

[.......]ΘΑΨΕΝΘΕΟΔΟΤΟΝΕΡΜΙ
ΟΥ[......].ΤΙΑΣΒΟΥΛΑΙΑΣΑΝΔΡΑ
[........].ΓΑΘΟΝΚΑΙΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΝ
[........].ΩΝΖΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΛΩΣ
5[........].ΩΣΚΑΙΕΝΦΙΛΟΜΑΘΙΑ
[.........].ΙΚΑΙΑΡΕΤΗΙΠΑΣΗΙ

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2016a

The people buried Theodotos, son of Hermias, the priest of Hestia Boulaia, a good and virtuous man, a lover of the fatherland continuing the tradition of his ancestors, who lived a good and prudent life, in love of learning, in education, and in the entire virtue.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 04.89 I 04.18

Publication: Smith and Ratté, 2006 23 (mention); Chaniotis, EBGR 2008.75 (mention); Chaniotis, 2015 116, with note 29 (description), whence SEG 65.943; Chaniotis, 2016a 1, whence BE 2017.514, Chaniotis, EBGR 2019.32.

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