Description: Perhaps a statue base shaft ( measurements, from Anthopoulos, w: 0.48 × h: 1.16 × d: 0.10).
Text:
Inscribed face 0.40. If the block was complete, the text will have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: 0.025.
Date: Probably soon after 212 CE (if the name is correctly restored). (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Pirlibey: Recorded at Aphrodisias by Deering and Waddington;
at Pirlibey (with other stones from Aphrodisias) by Anthopoulos
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Pirlibey (1872)
Interpretive
[ἡ πόλις Τιβ(έριον) Κλ(αύδιον) Αὐρ(ήλιον) Ζῆλον?]
τὸν ῥήτορα
καὶ σοφιστὴν
ἀρχιερέα τα-
μίαν νεωποι-
5όν κτίστην
πολλὰ καὶ
διὰ συνηγο-
ριῶν κατορ-
θώσαντα τῇ
10 ( vac. 1) πατρίδι ( vac. 1)
υἱὸν Τιβ(ερίου) Κλ(αυδίου)
Ζήλου ἀρχι-
ερέως καὶ ἱε-
ρέως τῆς
15 Ἀφροδίτης
τοῦ πολλοῖς
καὶ μεγάλοις
( vac. 2) ἔργοις ( vac. 2)
ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων
20 κοσμήσαντος
τὴν πόλιν
Diplomatic
[...................]
ΤΟΝΡΗΤΟΡΑ
ΚΑΙΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΝ
ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΤΑ
ΜΙΑΝΝΕΩΠΟΙ
5ΟΝΚΤΙΣΤΗΝ
ΠΟΛΛΑΚΑΙ
ΔΙΑΣΥΝΗΓΟ
ΡΙΩΝΚΑΤΟΡ
ΘΩΣΑΝΤΑΤΗ
10 ΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ
ΥΙΟΝΤΙΒΚΛ
ΖΗΛΟΥΑΡΧΙ
ΕΡΕΩΣΚΑΙΙΕ
ΡΕΩΣΤΗΣ
15ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ
ΤΟΥΠΟΛΛΟΙΣ
ΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΟΙΣ
ΕΡΓΟΙΣ
ΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝ
20ΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ
ΤΗΝΠΟΛΙΝ
Translation
[?The city (set up a statue of) Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Aur(elius) Zelos], rhetor and sophist, high priest, treasurer, neopoios, public builder, who also set many things to rights for his homeland by acting as an advocate; son of Tib(erius) Cl(audius)
Zelos, high priest and priest of Aphrodite, who beautified the city by many great public works at his own expense.
French translation
Translation source: Puech, 2002
. . . [a/ont honoré Claudius Aurelius Zelos] , orateur et sophiste, grand-prêtre, trésorier, néope, findateur, qui a également,
par ses plaidoiries, valu bien des succès à sa patrie, fils du grand-prêtre et prêtre d'Aphrodite Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Zelos
qui a paré la cité, à ses propres frais, de nombreux et grands édifices.
Bibliography
Transcription: Deering, 1812 3, unnumbered; Waddington, 1850 ; Anthopoulos, 1872, at Pirlibey.
Publication: Leake, 1843 5 ; Anthopoulos, 1875 80; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1598bis , whence Robert, 1966 396-7, McCabe, PHI, 1996 260 , Puech, 2002, 260, Smith, 2006 H.165 (listed); IAph2007 14.18.
