Description: Piece from the right side of a marble block
statue base shaft). The complete block was reused in the city wall,
and an impression survived in a slab of mortar (w: 0.42 × h: 1.20)
Text: Inscribed on one face, of which the fragment was from the upper right side;
the fuller text was impressed on the mortar
Letters: 0.028
Date: Probably late second to early third century CE (family history). (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls North-east: 'n.e. wall upside down' (Sherard);
'Rempart. Mur du cirque (stade)' (Gaudin); the marble fragment and the mortar fragment in the north wall north of the Stadium with
13.6
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
ἡ βουλ̣ὴ̣ κ̣αὶ ὁ δῆ-
μος καὶ ἡ γερο[υ]-
[σ]ία ἐτειμησαν
τ̣α̣ῖ̣ς πρώταις [καὶ]
5με[γί]σ̣τ̣αις τει-
μαῖς [Π]υρρον Ζή-
ν̣ων[ος] [τ̣οῦ] Πύ[ρ]-
[ρ]ου Π̣[απί]αν φιλό-
[π?]ατ̣[ρι]ν γένους
10[π]ρώτου καὶ ἐνδό-
ξου [τε]λευτήσαν-
[τα c. 7] ἡλικι-
α [c. 4].ΙΗ[c. 4] ΙΑ[---]
[c. 5] ΛΙ.Ι [---]
15[c. 6] ΙΟΝΕ [---]
[------]
[------]
[---]Π̣ΑΠ̣[---]
[---]ΥΑΥ[---]
20[---]Ν[---]
[---]Δ̣Ε̣Π[.]Ν[.]
[------]
[------]
[---]Ι [---]
25[---]ΜΜ[---]
Diplomatic
ΗΒΟΥ...ΑΙΟΔΗ
ΜΟΣΚΑΙΗΓΕΡΟ[.]
[.]ΙΑΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ
...ΣΠΡΩΤΑΙΣ[...]
5ΜΕ[..]..ΑΙΣΤΕΙ
ΜΑΙΣ[.]ΥΡΡΟΝΖΗ
.ΩΝ[.....]ΠΥ[.]
[.]ΟΥ.[...]ΑΝΦΙΛΟ
[.]Α.[..]ΝΓΕΝΟΥΣ
10[.]ΡΩΤΟΥΚΑΙΕΝΔΟ
ΞΟΥ[..]ΛΕΥΤΗΣΑΝ
[..·······]ΗΛΙΚΙ
Α[····]ΙΗ[····]ΙΑ[---]
[·····]ΛΙΙ[---]
15[······]ΙΟΝΕ[---]
[------]
[------]
[---].Α.[---]
[---]ΥΑΥ[---]
20[---]Ν[---]
[---]..Π[·]Ν[·]
[------]
[------]
[---]Ι[---]
25[---]ΜΜ[---]
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2016b
The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the first and greatest honours Pyrrhos Papias, son of Zenon, son
of Pyrrhos, lover of the fatherland, belonging to one of the first and reputed familes, who died . . . in age . . .
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the first and greatest honours Pyrrhos Papias, son of Zenon the
son of Pyrrhos, lover [of his fellow citizens?], of a first and honoured family, who died aged [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 92, i; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 73 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 530 , Smith, 2006 H.140 (listed); IAph2007 13.7; Chaniotis, 2016b, whence SEG 66.1155