Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

16.141. Dedication of eagle statuette

Description: Lower part of a white marble statuette of an eagle, on a simple socle, chipped below; the lower part of the bird survives (w: 0.30 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.26).

Text: Inscribed on the front of the socle.

Letters: Irregular; sigma lunate in line 1, square in line 2; 0.015. A vertical line, with depressions on either side, precedes the name

Date: Second-third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: from demolition of Latif's house.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

·|· Πειϲίϲτρατοϲ
ἰδρυσάμην̣

Diplomatic

|ΠΕΙϹΙϹΤΡΑΤΟϹ
ΙΔΡΥΣΑΜΗ.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

Peisistratos, I set (scil. this) up.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 83.164

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)