43. Ampelius, father of the city, restores the 'palaestra'Charlotte M. Roueché2004EnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekModern GreekTransliterated GreekItalianLatinSpanishTurkish2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-03-24Gabriel BodardCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode2003-07-16Juan Garcéslemmatised2003-08-16CMRtagged and corrected2003-08-20CMRname tags reduced2004-01-23CMRtidied; image refs
Description of Monument
Odeon/Bouleuterion stage rim, which is 0.10 high. The rim was broken in several places: it has been largely restored, but four fragments are still loose.
Description of Text
Cut along the rim of the stage. The total length of the text is c. 7.65.
The letters on the loose fragments are underlined in the text.
Translation
For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the Aphrodisians, this work of the palaestra also took place under Flavius Ampelius the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the tenth indiction. With good fortune.
Commentary
See discussion at IV.21 following.
For Ampelius, see also 38, 42, 44 and list of local officials Ampelius.
Found
Bouleuterion/Odeon: on the stage rim; see plan 1.
Original Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot; fragments in Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963.
Bibliography
Published by Erim, ILN21 Dec. 1963, 1028; by Roueché (1979), 176, no. 2, whence BE1980:473; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 43 and plate, whence PHI620.