Description: Upper part of a white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.53 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.58)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02-0.025
Date: 77 A.D. (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, West area: lying beside a cistern about 3 km approximately westwards of Aphrodisias at a bearing of 255° on the Acropolis (1934). When the site was identified in 1976 the cistern had been dismantled and its stones apparently re-used in a newly-built farmhouse, but this piece was not visible; it had presumably been broken up or re-used with the inscribed face covered.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)
Apparatus
1: [Τι]βέριος Calder, 1935; Τιβέριος MAMA 8; Ἀσκω Calder, 1935; Ἀσκ̣ω̣ MAMA 8
3: κα[ὶ] Calder, 1935, Sokolowski, 1955, Robert, 1971; κα[ίπερ] MAMA 8
7: ?[πωλεῖν ἐ]ν Calder, 1935; [πιάζειν ἐ]ν Sokolowski, 1955; [--- ἐ]ν Reynolds, 1982, IAph2007; [ἀφαιρεῖ]ν Kokkinia, 2025
10: [---]ΣΘΑ[Ι] Calder, 1935; [χάριν, ἀλλ᾿αἰδεῖ]σ̣θαι Sokolowski, 1955; [ἀμελεῖν τινες] τ̣ολ̣[μῶσι] MAMA 8
English translation
Translation source: Kokkinia, 2025
Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, proconsul, says: even though there are decrees by which it is forbidden to catch, keep, scare away, [remove] the doves from the city and the worship of the goddess [ . . .
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, proconsul, announces: although decrees also exist by which it is forbidden to catch, keep, scare or [ . . ? . . ] the [doves] in the city and [ . . ? . . ] of the cult concerning the goddess [ . . .
Commentary
Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, PIR C1 0474, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/3799
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934
Publication: Calder, 1935 , whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1938.395 , Sokolowski, 1955 86, SEG 15.660; MAMA 8 411 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII l4, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.384 ; Robert, 1971 91-97; Reynolds, 1982 46 whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 75 , IAph2007 13.609; Kokkinia, 2025 26.
Images
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