Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.922. Statue dedication for the People of Aphrodisias

Description: No description; apparently a statue base.

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Third century CE (content, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch: seen with 12.925, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, 12.929,12.912, 12.932 and 8.27, “all together, on ye remains of ye wall, amongst ye bushes, betwixt ye W. gate and ye basreliefs on ye wall”.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1716)

Interpretive

τῆς λαμπροτά-
της Ἀφροδεισιέ-
ων πόλεως ἄρ-
χοντε̣ς οἱ περὶ Αὐ-
5ρήλιον Ἀντώ̣νιον
Νεικόμαχον Βλά-
στον πρω̣τόλογον
ἄρχοντα τὸ τρίτον
τὸν Δῆμον τὸν
10 Ἀφροδεισιέων
καθιέρωσε
καὶ ἀνέστησαν

Diplomatic

ΤΗΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑ
ΤΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕ
ΩΝΠΟΛΕΩΣΑΡ
ΧΟΝΤ.ΣΟΙΠΕΡΙΑΥ
5ΡΗΛΙΟΝΑΝΤ.ΝΙΟΝ
ΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΝΒΛΑ
ΣΤΟΝΠΡ.ΤΟΛΟΓΟΝ
ΑΡΧΟΝΤΑΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝ
ΤΟΝΔΗΜΟΝΤΟΝ
10ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝ
ΚΑΘΙΕΡΩΣΕ
ΚΑΙΑΝΕΣΤΗΣΑΝ

Apparatus

4: ΤΗΣ Sherard, 1716
5: ΤΟΝ Sherard, 1716
7: ΠΡΟΤ Sherard, 1716

Translation

The archons of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians, (led by) Aurelius Antonius Neikomachos Blastos, first archon for the third time, consecrated and set up the People of the Aphrodisians.

Commentary

This belongs with the other dedications of the Peoples of other cities (12.924, 12.925, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, 12.929, 12.930), found in the same area.

Bibliography

Transcription: Sherard, 1716 127v

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2760 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 213 ; IAph2007 12.922.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.16v, at British Library