Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.914. Building inscription by Aphrodite

Description: None

Text: None

Letters: No measurements

Date: Second century CE (?) (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: reused in the Walls, West stretch, in a stretch where the wall was about 30 feet high: 'muro occidentali 30 circiter pedes alto. ye wall seems here entire. To ye right are several illegible in ye wall' (Sherard) near 12.1018 (=CIG 2783)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1705)

Interpretive

Ἡ Ἀφροδείτη ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων προσόδων
τὰς ἀνδριαντοθήκας κατεσκεύα-
σεν καὶ τὰς πυλίδας σὺν τοῖς ἐπι-
φερομένοις μετέθηκεν καὶ ἀνεστη-
5σεν καὶ ἐλευκούργησεν
( vac. ) ἐπιμεληθέντων ( vac. 6)
Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος Μενάνδρου
Ἀπολλωνίου γ Πηλέως Εὐγενέτορος
τοῦ Ἀττάλου Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Πιττα
10Πελοπίδου τοῦ Εὔνου
( vac. 16) νεοποιῶν

Diplomatic

ΗΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΠΡΟΣΟΔΩΝ
ΤΑΣΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΘΗΚΑΣΚΑΤΕΣΚΕΥΑ
ΣΕΝΚΑΙΤΑΣΠΥΛΙΔΑΣΣΥΝΤΟΙΣΕΠΙ
ΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΙΣΜΕΤΕΘΗΚΕΝΚΑΙΑΝΕΣΤΗ
5ΣΕΝΚΑΙΕΛΕΥΚΟΥΡΓΗΣΕΝ
      ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ            
ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΓΠΗΛΕΩΣΕΥΓΕΝΕΤΟΡΟΣ
ΤΟΥΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΠΙΤΤΑ
10ΠΕΛΟΠΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΕΥΝΟΥ
                                ΝΕΟΠΟΙΩΝ

Apparatus

7: ΕΥΓΕΝ Sherard, 1705; ΕΓΓΕΝ CIG II.2, 1835
11: νε[ω]ποιῶν CIG II.2, 1835

Translation

Aphrodite from her own income prepared the statue bases and changed, set up and faced with marble the little gates with their lintels(?); the supervisors, neopoioi, were Zenon the son of Zenon son of Menandros, Apollonios son of Peleus son of Peleus son of Peleus, Eugenetor the son of Attalos, Herakleides the son of Pittas(?), Pelopides the son of Eunous.

Commentary

The inscription seen by Fellows (60 and 61, p. 357) which Boeckh (CIG II, 1109) related to this inscription was in fact that published as 12.803 (=LBW 1611), column B.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 45 and, from Tisser, 63, whence Sherard, 1705 12

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2749 , ?whence Texier, 1835 161-2 McCabe, PHI, 1996 121 ; IAph2007 12.914.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.9r, at British Library