Description: Turkish tombstone, partly buried (w: 0.23 × h: 0.95 visible × d: 0.35)
cut down from a white marble
statue base with moulding.
Text:
Inscribed on the face. The upper moulding survives; text may have begun on an upper feature, or have extended substantially
to the left.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; diairetic dots before Α, line 13, on either side of Ε, line 19.
Date: Second-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, North-east: in Turkish cemetery.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
[ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσται καὶ μεγί]σταις [τειμαῖς ---]
[---]Τίτο[ν Φλάβιον? ---]
[---]Α̣ΛΗ[---]
[--- ἄνδρ]α γέν̣[ους πρώτου---]
5[---]ΑΛΟ[---]
[---]Α̣ΝΤΙ̣[---]
[---]ΟΝ κα[ὶ---]
[--- στεφ]ανήφ[ορήσαντα]
[καὶ πάσα]ς ἄλλ̣[ας ἀρχὰς καὶ]
10 [λειτου]ρ̣γίας[---]
[ἐκτελεσ]αντα̣[---]
[---]ποιη̣[σαμένου ---]
[---]τὴν ((stop)) ἀ[νάστασιν---]
[---τ]οῦ ἀν̣[δριάντος ---]
15 [---] Φλαβ̣[ίου ---]
[---]ΝΟΥ̣[---]
Φλαβίαν [Πυθο?]δ̣ωρίδ[α ---]
[---]ΝΩΝΑ̣[---]
[---καθ᾿ἃ?] διετ[άξατο?]
[------]
Diplomatic
[............................................]ΣΤΑΙΣ[.......---]
[---]ΤΙΤΟ[........---]
[---].ΛΗ[---]
[---....]ΑΓΕ.[.........---]
5[---]ΑΛΟ[---]
[---].ΝΤ.[---]
[---]ΟΝΚΑ[.---]
[---....]ΑΝΗΦ[........]
[.......]ΣΑΛ.[..........]
10[......].ΓΙΑΣ[---]
[.......]ΑΝΤ.[---]
[---]ΠΟΙ.[.......---]
[---]ΤΗΝ • Α[........---]
[---.]ΟΥΑ.[........---]
15[---]ΦΛΑ.[...---]
[---]ΝΟ.[---]
ΦΛΑΒΙΑΝ[....].ΩΡΙΔ[.---]
[---]ΝΩΝ.[---]
[---.....]ΔΙΕΤ[.....]
[------]
Apparatus
1: [ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγί]σταις JMR
8: [στεφ]ανήφ[ορον] JMR
17: [Χρυσ?]α̣ο̣ριδ[ος ---] JMR
19: . . . ]ΔΙΕΤ[ . . . JMR
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
[The Council and the People honoured with the most beautiful and grea]test [honours . . . ] Titu[s Flavius? . . . a man] of
a [first] family . . . having served as steph]aneph[oros and [having ful]filled [ all] othe[r offices and litur]gies [ . .
. ] having made [ . . . ] the er[ection o]f the sta[tue [ . . . ] Flavius [ . . . ]Flavia [Pytho?]doris [ . . . ] according
to what?] he/she orda[ined?]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1973, East Cemetery 2 and in 2007, D135
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.171 (listed); Chaniotis, 2012 2, whence SEG 62.801
