Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.930. Honours for the People of [---]

Description: No description; presumably a statue base

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Mid third century CE (textual context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Perhaps Walls, West stretch

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1841)

Interpretive

ὁ δῆμος τῆς λαμ-
προτάτης Ἀφρο-
δεισιέων πόλε-
ως τὸν λαμπρό-
5τατ⟦[ον]⟧ ⟦[δῆμον]
[---]

Diplomatic

ΟΔΗΜΟΣΤΗΣΛΑΜ
ΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣΑΦΡΟ
ΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝΠΟΛΕ
ΩΣΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡΟ
5ΤΑΤ⟦[..]⟧⟦[.....]
[---]

Translation

The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (honoured) the most splendid [People of the ...]

Commentary

This is one of a group of dedications for neighbouring communities: see 12.924, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, 12.929 and 12.930. It is not quite certain that this text is not simply a bad copy of one of those; but Fellows claimed that the text, from line 5, had been 'purposely erased', in which case this copy does represent another text.

Bibliography

Transcription: Fellows, 1840

Publication: Fellows, 1841 62 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 2765b , Roueché, PPA 64 , whence PHI PPAphr 64 ; IAph2007 12.930.

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