Description:
White marble
block or statue base (w: 0.44 × h: 0.67 × d: 0.44) with drafted edges on the left and right sides. The stone is chipped above
and to the right, but complete above.
Text: The inscription impinges on the right edge. The text must have begun on an upper feature.
Letters: 0.0225-0.25; phi 0.36; dot for stop and for abbreviation
Date: First to second A.D. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, South area: in front of the South wall (Kubitschek)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)
Interpretive
[------]-
[c. 5] υἱὸν Ἰ̣[ουλι?]α̣-
νὸν ἥρωα καὶ Φλαβ[ί-]
αν Σέξστου Φλαβ[ί-]
ου Ἰουλιανοῦ Διογ[έ-]
5νους θυγατέρα Ἀπφ[ί-]
αν Ἰουλιανὴν ἡρω-
( vac. 5) ίδα ( vac. 5)
τὰς δὲ τειμὰς
ἀνέθεσαν Σέξ-
10στος Φλάβιος ((stop)) Σέξ(στου)
Φλ(αβίου) υἱὸς Ἰουλιανὸς Δι-
ογένης καὶ Φλαβία((stop)) Τί(του)
Φλ(αβίου) Γαληνοῦ θυγά-
τηρ Ἀπφία οἱ γονεῖς
15αὐτῶν ((scroll))
Diplomatic
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[·····]ΥΙΟΝ.[....].
ΝΟΝΗΡΩΑΚΑΙΦΛΑΒ[.-]
ΑΝΣΕΞΣΤΟΥΦΛΑΒ[.-]
ΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥΔΙΟΓ[.-]
5ΝΟΥΣΘΥΓΑΤΕΡΑΑΠΦ[.-]
ΑΝΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΗΝΗΡΩ
ΙΔΑ
ΤΑΣΔΕΤΕΙΜΑΣ
ΑΝΕΘΕΣΑΝΣΕΞ
10ΣΤΟΣΦΛΑΒΙΟΣ • ΣΕΞ
ΦΛΥΙΟΣΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΣΔΙ
ΟΓΕΝΗΣΚΑΙΦΛΑΒΙΑ • ΤΙ
ΦΛΓΑΛΗΝΟΥΘΥΓΑ
ΤΗΡΑΠΦΙΑΟΙΓΟΝΕΙΣ
15ΑΥΤΩΝ
Apparatus
1: Kubitschek recorded traces of an upright after υἱὸν, and alpha or lambda at the end of the line, not noted by MAMA
Translation
[ ? Public bodies honoured . . . ?Iulia]nos son [ of ?], hero, and Flavia Apphia Iuliane, herois, daughter of Sextus Flavius
Julianus Diogenes: their honours (?statues) Sextus Flavius Iulianos Diogenes, son of Sex(tus) Fl(avius) and Flavia Apphia,
daughter of Ti(tus) Fl(avius) Galenos, their parents, set up.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.5, Abklatsch 111; Calder, 1934
Publication: MAMA 8 510 and plate 28 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 489 , Smith, 2006 H.213, H.214 (listed); IAph2007 13.401.
