Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.1015. Funerary copy of a consolatory decree

Description: A broken white marble masonry block w: 0.95 × h: 0.71 × d: 0.32.

Text: Inscribed on the face, which was overcut with Turkish graffiti before 1705 and from line 6 rendered virtually illegible

Letters: Probably early second century, 0.025.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate: 'on a cornish beyond the n. w. gate lying in the ground' (Sherard); lying on the south side of the West Gate.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[ἔδοξεν τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ· γνώμη ---] γραμματέως δήμου καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγῶν
[ἐπεί c. 27] α γένους λαμπροῦ καὶ ἐνδόξου ἀφαιρεθείσα ὑπὸ τοῦ
[δαίμονος? c. 21] Μ̣ολόσσου καὶ Μηνοδότου τῶν τέκνων καὶ Μολόσσου
[καὶ --- τῶν ἐκγόνων --- πρὸ τῆς] Ἀντιοχικῆς πύλης μνημεῖον καὶ σορὸν λευκόλιθα
5 [ἐφ′ᾧ? c. 28 Μόλ]οσ [σον] καὶ Μηνόδοτον τὰ τέκνα καὶ Μόλοσσον καὶ
[--- τοὺς ἐκγόνους c. 20 κα]ὶ μετὰ τὸ ἑαυτὴν ἐνκηδευθῆναι
[ἐν αὐτῇ c. 20] καὶ μ̣η̣δ̣ε̣ὶ̣ς ἄλλος ἐξουσίαν
[c. 50] Δ̣ [..]χωρὶς ὧν ἄν αὐτος
[c. 50] Ω̣Ν̣ καὶ ΑΥΤΑΠΥ̣[c. 4]
10 [c. 30] ( vac. 2) δεδόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ̣ [δήμῳ]
[c. 30 ἐπιγραφῆ]ναι ἀντίγραφα ταύ̣[της?]
[c. 30] χωρὶς Μηνοδότου ουδεὶς [c. 4]
[c. 30 κη]δευθήσεται ἐν αὐτῷ [c. 5]
[c. 30 τῆν σορ]ὸν ἔστω ἀσεβὴ[ς καὶ ἐπάρατος ]
15 [καὶ? τυμβωρύχος ---] ΑΙ̣ [---]
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Diplomatic

[............................---]ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΣΔΗΜΟΥΚΑΙΤΩΝΕΠΙΤΗΣΧΩΡΑΣΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΩΝ
[....···························]ΑΓΕΝΟΥΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΥΚΑΙΕΝΔΟΞΟΥΑΦΑΙΡΕΘΕΙΣΑΥΠΟΤΟΥ
[........·····················].ΟΛΟΣΣΟΥΚΑΙΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΤΩΝΤΕΚΝΩΝΚΑΙΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΥ
[...---..........---......]ΑΝΤΙΟΧΙΚΗΣΠΥΛΗΣΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΝΚΑΙΣΟΡΟΝΛΕΥΚΟΛΙΘΑ
5[....····························...]ΟΣ[...]ΚΑΙΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΝΤΑΤΕΚΝΑΚΑΙΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΝΚΑΙ
[---............····················..]ΙΜΕΤΑΤΟΕΑΥΤΗΝΕΝΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΝΑΙ
[......····················]ΚΑΙ.....ΣΑΛΛΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝ
[··················································].[··]ΧΩΡΙΣΩΝΑΝΑΥΤΟΣ
[··················································]..ΚΑΙΑΥΤΑΠ.[····]
10[······························]    ΔΕΔΟΧΘΑΙΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΤ.[....]
[······························........]ΝΑΙΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΑΤΑ.[...]
[······························]ΧΩΡΙΣΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΟΥΔΕΙΣ[····]
[······························..]ΔΕΥΘΗΣΕΤΑΙΕΝΑΥΤΩ[·····]
[······························......]ΟΝΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗ[............]
15[.............---]Α.[---]
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Apparatus

The letters highlighted were seen by Sherard but not by us. He also recorded two lines above, but there is no trace of these on the stone, where there is clearly a space.
1: ἔδοξεν ...γνώμη Robert, Hellenica XIII; ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ Sherard, 1716; στρατηγῶ Robert, Hellenica XIII
2: δ]ιὰ γένους IAph2007; ΑΦΑΙΡΕΘΕΙΣΑΠΟΤΟΥΛΥΠΟΤΟΥ Sherard, 1716 The reading on the stone makes it clear that Sherard duplicated what he saw. ; ὑπὸ τοῦ [δαίμονος Robert, Hellenica XIII
3: ΤΟΛΟΣΣΟΥ Sherard, 1716
5: ΜΟΛΟΣΣΟΥΚΑΙ Sherard, 1716

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 29v, and Sherard, 1716 126v (lines 1-5 only, preceded by 12.1015:); New York University expedition

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2837 , with 12.1015, whence Robert, Hellenica XIII164-6, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.416 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 23 . The first two lines published there are from Sherard's f.39, with 12.903 (= CIG 2754), and do not belong here. IAph2007 12.1015.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 4. Lines 1-5: Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.19r, at British Library


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