Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.1201. Fragment from a sculptor's signature, of Apollonios

Description: A plain rectangular white marble statue base plinth (w: 0.39 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.38, when measured by Kubitscheck; some material since lost). The top shows a circular hatched area.

Text: Inscribed on the front face.

Letters: 0.016

Date: Not dateable.

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South: 'Südmauer' (Kubitschek); a stray find in 1977.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[---] Ἀπολλωνιου
[--- ἐπο]ίε̣ι ( vac. 10)

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
[---...]Ι.Ι                    

Apparatus

2: In line 2, the first letter read by Kubitschek is no longer visible, and the second is now damaged.

Translation

[---] (son) of Apollonios made (scil. this)

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.30; New York University expedition

Publication: Cormack, 1964 no. 13b , on which see Robert, 1966 400-1; Erim and Reynolds, 1989 10 , whence SEG 40.933 ; IAph2007 12.1201.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook III.30