Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.915. Building inscription by Zenon

Description: 'longissimus marmor' (Sherard).

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (terminology)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch: seen with 12.903; 'ex longissimo marmore media parte terra immerso' (Sherard).

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1705)

Interpretive

[---] ὑπὸ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ἀγαθό[ποδος ---]
[--- ν]εοποιοῦ πρώτου ἄρχοντος δὶς γραμ[ματέως ---]
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Diplomatic

[---]ΥΠΟΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΑΓΑΘΟ[.....---]
[---.]ΕΟΠΟΙΟΥΠΡΩΤΟΥΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣΔΙΣΓΡΑΜ[......---]
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Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

These two lines were published as part of 12.1015 (CIG 2837); as JMR notes, they do not belong there

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 29v, whence Sherard, 1705 39.

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835, as the first lines of CIG 2837 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 23 ; IAph2007 12.915.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.19r, at British Library