Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.904. Senatus Consultum de Aphrodisiensibus or Lex de Aphrodisiensibus

Description: Blue marble panel fragment broken on all sides (w: 0.12 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.038)

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: late Republican-Augustan; 0.012

Date: 39-38 BCE (content, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch: Lying loose on the eastern face of the western city wall, a little south of the presumed location of fragments of 8.27

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[κ]α̣ὶ τὴ̣[ν ---]
[--- καλλί]στῳ τε νόμ[ῳ ---]
[--- τοῦ δή]μου τοῦ Ῥω[μαίων ---]
[--- τέμεν]ος ἄσυλο[ν ---]
5 [---ἐστὶ]ν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ̣[---]
[--- πο]λεῖται ο[ἱ Πλαρασέων καὶ Ἀφροδεισιέων ---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[.].ΙΤ.[.---]
[---.....]ΣΤΩΤΕΝΟΜ[.---]
[---.....]ΜΟΥΤΟΥΡΩ[.....---]
[---.....]ΟΣΑΣΥΛΟ[.---]
5[---....]ΝΕΝΕΦΕΣ.[---]
[---..]ΛΕΙΤΑΙΟ[.........................---]
[------]

Apparatus

Elements of 8.27 lines 53-58
5: This line omitted Reynolds, 1982, IAph2007

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

[---] and the [---]most correct law [---] the Roman people [ . . . precinct] asylum [---]which is in Ephesos [---]citizens [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition77.70 (by Mary Beard)

Publication: Reynolds, 1982 8a whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 73 , IAph2007 12.904.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)