Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.7. Posthumous honours for Pyrrhos Papias son of Zenon

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[---]

Apparatus

Underlined letters are those seen on the stone fragment
8-9: φιλο/[ρωμαίο]ν? Reinach, 1906; φιλο/[πολίτη]ν? IAph2007; T perhaps more similar to a Γ or a Π Chaniotis, 2016b

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 [---]

Commentary

Members of this family are also honoured in 13.6 and 13.5: see also 12.32.

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

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