1.109. Dedication to Aphrodite by Artemidoros

Description:: Four joining fragments of a low white marble base (W. c. 1.10 × H. 0.32 × D. 0.25); . On top are traces of the lost statuary; on the right the socle of an attached column, on the left a socket.
Text:: Inscribed face W. c. 0.98 × H. 0.18
Letters:: 0.025-0.03
Date:: Perhaps first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:: b. & c. Temple/Church xiv, Stratum 1; a. South Agora: in stonepile, W. Portico of Tiberius.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Museum (1978)
History of discovery:: Excavated by the NYU expedition over several years (c. 62.95, b. 62.96, a. 74.274)
Bibliography:: Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 26, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.386, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 153.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).

1 Ἀρτεμίδ̣[ωρ]ος Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ἀπολ̣[λωνίου] [·· c. 6 ··]

2Ἀ̣φ[ρ]ο̣δίτ̣[ῃ] ὃν ἐπηνγίλα̣το Ἀρτεμίδωρ̣[ος Ἀπολλωνίου]

1ΑΡΤΕΜΙ·[··]ΟΣΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΑΠΟ·[······][······]

2·Φ[·]·ΔΙ·[·]ΟΝΕΠΗΝΓΙΛ·ΤΟΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩ·[············]

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Ἀρτεμί

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ωρ

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ος

Ἀρτεμιδώρου

τοῦ

Ἀπο

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λωνίου

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Ἀ

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δί

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ῃ

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ὃν

ἐπηνγίλ

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το

Ἀρτεμίδω

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ος

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Ἀπολλωνίου

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Apparatus

l. 1, Perhaps θεᾷ at the end

l. 2, The name of the goddess was probably erased in the Christian period.

Translation:

Artemidoros son of Artemidoros the son of Apol[lonios] to Aphrodite (or) [the goddess] Aphrodite, (the statuary) which Artemidoros [?son of Apollonios] promised.