Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.281. List(?) of prizes for the Attalea

Description: Fragment of what seems to be the front of a white marble sarcophagus (w: 0.41 × h: 0.485 × d: 0.20) with back and lower edge surviving.

Text: Inscribed on the face; lines 9-12 are on a simple moulding.

Letters: Standard second-third-century forms, 0.022; apex on Θ, line 12.

Date: Second to third-centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[--- ἀγῶ?]νας̣ ο̣ὓ̣ς̣[---]
[--- οἰκου]μενικοι̣[---]
[---] Η̣ περὶ τοῦ [---]
5[---] ((stop)) Μᾶρκος Αἴ̣[λιος? ---]
[---]ΤΟΣ Αὐρηλίῳ [---]
[--- τῆς λαμπροτάτ]ης Ἀφροδεισι[έων πόλεως ---]
[--- πλ]ῆ̣θος τῶν τειμῶ[ν ---]
[--- ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν αὐτ]οκρατόρων εἰς α[ἰῶνα διαμονῆς ---]
10[---]ΩΝΔΕΤΙ καὶ τῇ ΤΕ̣[---]
[--- τὸν Ἀτ]τάληον ἀγῶν[α ---]
[--- οἰκουμενικὸ?]ν̣ καὶ εἰσελαστ[ικὸν ---]
[--- θ]έ̣ματα τὰ ὑπο[γεγραμμένα ---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---...]ΝΑ....[---]
[---.....]ΜΕΝΙΚΟ.[---]
[---].ΠΕΡΙΤΟΥ[---]
5[---] • ΜΑΡΚΟΣΑ.[....---]
[---]ΤΟΣΑΥΡΗΛΙΩ[---]
[---............]ΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙ[.........---]
[---..].ΘΟΣΤΩΝΤΕΙΜΩ[.---]
[---.............]ΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΩΝΕΙΣΑ[............---]
10[---]ΩΝΔΕΤΙΚΑΙΤΗΤ.[---]
[---.....]ΤΑΛΗΟΝΑΓΩΝ[.---]
[---...........].ΚΑΙΕΙΣΕΛΑΣΤ[....---]
[---.].ΜΑΤΑΤΑΥΠΟ[..........---]

Translation

- ] ? contests which [ - - -] world-wide [ - - ?magistrates ] led by [ - - -] Marcus Ae[lius - - -] to Aurelius [ - - ?the most splendid city of] the Aphrodisians [ - - the ] quantity of the honours [ - - on behalf of the eternal preservation] of the emperors [ - - the At]taleian contest [ - ? world wide] and conferring right of triumphal entry [ - - ] prizes those [?written] below [ -

Commentary

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Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 70.215

Publication: Roueché, PPA 57 , IAph2007 15.281.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)


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