Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.919. Honours for Hypsikleia Apphia (relative of) N[ikotimos(?)]

Description: Fragment from the left side of a white marble statue base (w: 0.58 × h: 0.74 × d: 0.27) with moulding surviving to left.

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch: lying on the West Wall some way south of the West Gate, near 12.902.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1976)

Interpretive

ΙΑΙ̣[c. 13]
καὶ μ[εγίσταις καὶ]
πρεπ[ούσαις τειμαῖς]
Ὑψίκλιδ[α c. 10]
5 τοῦ Νε[ικοτείμου?]
Ἀπφία[ν ζήσασαν κοσ-]
μίως κ[αὶ? c. 4]
καὶ πρὸ[ς ὑπόδει-]
((scroll))γμ[α ἀρετῆς]

Diplomatic

ΙΑΙ.[·············]
ΚΑΙΜ[...........]
ΠΡΕΠ[.............]
ΥΨΙΚΛΙΔ[.··········]
5ΤΟΥΝΕ[.........]
ΑΠΦΙΑ[...........-]
ΜΙΩΣΚ[..····]
ΚΑΙΠΡΟ[.......-]
ΓΜ[.......]

Apparatus

4: Ὑψίκλ[ειαν Reinach, 1906, McCabe, PHI, 1996, IAph2007; ΥΨΙΚΛΙΔ Reichel, 1893
5: Ν[εικοδήμου? Reinach, 1906, McCabe, PHI, 1996; Ν[εικοτείμου? IAph2007; NE[ Reichel, 1893, Gaudin, 1904

Translation

References to fitting [honours]; to Hypsiklis Apphia who had lived in a seemly manner.

Commentary

The name of her ?father, grandfather or husband starts with Ne[ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Reichel, 1893 R.I.7, Abklatsch 45; Gaudin, 1904 38b; Calder, 1934 (Cormack, Notes p.36); New York University expedition Walls 8

Publication: Reinach, 1906 107 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 488 , Smith, 2006 H.240 (listed); IAph2007 12.919.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 2. Reichel, notebook I, 7

Fig. 3. Face (Gaudin squeeze, 1904, to the left)