Description: Fragment from the left side of a white marble statue base without moulding (w: 0.20 × h: 0.50 × d: 0.20); surface is lost at the left.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.03.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch, near 12.927 etc., 12.932 (Sherard); Tetrapylon: 'near S.Tet. ?86 II', a fragment (NYU)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
Letters seen by Kubitschek and the NYU expedition are underlined
2-3: The layout of the fragment suggests that Sherard may have recorded the line-break incorrectly; the alternative is to assume
that there were virtually identical texts.
3: ΣΑΝ Sherard, 1716
6/7: Kubitschek recorded a vacar at the opening of line 6 and in line 7; but the surface appears to be ?deliberately damaged.
8: ΠΡΟΤΟΝΕΟΠΟΙ Sherard, 1716; πρ[ῶ]το[ν] νε[ω]ποι CIG II.2, 1835
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
. . . ] according to what was decreed, honoured Marcus Aurelius Gaitulikos, freedman and procurator of Augustus, chief temple commissioner of the goddess Aphrodite.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
. . . and, according to what was decreed, honoured Marcus Aurelius Gaetulicus, freedman and procurator of Augustus, chief temple commissioner of the goddess Aphrodite.
Bibliography
Transcription: Sherard, 1716 128 (complete); a fragment: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.18, New York University expedition in 1988
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2800 ; Reynolds, 1982 56, whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 257 , Smith, 2006 H.102 (listed); IAph2007 12.912.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment, lines 2-6 (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 3. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.17r, at British Library
Fig. 4. Kubitschek notebook V, page 18