Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.807. Honours for Marcus Antonius Popillios Agelaos

Description: Upper part of a white marble base with heavy moulding above (0.030) and traces of a moulding below.

Text: Inscribed (line 1) on the upper fascia and (lines 2 ff.) on the face, which is badly chipped. One loose fragment joins to provide the end of lines 2-4.

Letters: 0.015.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-west: re-used in the southern stretch.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot, half buried (1975)

Interpretive

( vac. ) Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ ( vac. )
Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Ποπί̣λ-
[λ]ιος Ἀγέλαος σοφιστ[ὴ]ς
[πρω]τ̣ονεωποιὸς [c. 4]Σ
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Diplomatic

      ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ      
ΜΑΡΚΟΣΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΠΟΠ.Λ
[.]ΙΟΣΑΓΕΛΑΟΣΣΟΦΙΣΤ[.]Σ
[...].ΟΝΕΩΠΟΙΟΣ[····]Σ
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English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

With Good Fortune. Marcus Antonius Popillios Agelaos, sophist, senior neopoios [offered this?]

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

For Good Fortune. Marcus Antonius Popillios Agelaos, sophist, chief ship-builder [offered this?]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, Walls 121

Publication: Chaniotis, 2004b, 80 (mention); IAph2007 12.807, whence AE 2007.1419.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)