Description:
Eighteen white marble blocks or fragments of drafted masonry with a raised border above (blocks W. 0.80 or W. 1.18 × H. 0.34 × D. 0.52 or D. 1.32).
Text:
Inscribed in one line on the face, after the drafting had been done; the text impinges on the drafted edges.
Letters:
b. 0.07-0.075.
Date:
28 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot:
Fallen in the orchestra of the Theatre
Original Location:
Theatre, stage building.
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (67.294, 67.447, 70.459, 70.634, 71.419, 71.420, 71.421, 71.170, 71.446, 73.215
Bibliography:
Mentioned, BE 1971:609; published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 36b, whence Orth, EA 3, 1984, 63; SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983:388; An.Ép. 1984.878, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 93, Smith, Monument, T2
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); publications This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 Γάϊος Ἰο[ύλιο]ς Ζωΐ̣λος [θε]οῦ Ἰουλίου υἱ[ο]|ῦ Καίσαρος ἀ[πελεύθερο]ς στεφανοφορήσας τὸ | δέκατον ἑξῆς v. [τὸ] λ̣ογ̣[ήι]ον καὶ τ|ὸ προσκ̣ήν[ι]ο̣ν σὺν τοῖς | ἐν αὐ[τῶι π]ροσκοσμή|μ̣α̣σιν πᾶσιν, v. Ἀφροδίτ | ῃ καὶ τ[ῶι Δήμωι]
1ΓΑΙΟΣΙΟ[····]ΣΖΩ·ΛΟΣ[··]ΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΟΥΥΙ[·]ΥΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΑ[·········]ΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΦΟΡΗΣΑΣΤΟΔΕΚΑΤΟΝΕΞΗΣ [··]·Ο·[··]ΟΝΚΑΙΤΟΠΡΟΣ·ΗΝ[·]·ΝΣΥΝΤΟΙΣΕΝΑΥ[····]ΡΟΣΚΟΣΜΗ··ΣΙΝΠΑΣΙΝ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΚΑΙΤ[·······]
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Γάϊος
Ἰο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ύλιο
</supplied>
ς
Ζω
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
λος
<supplied reason="lost" >
θε
</supplied>
οῦ
Ἰουλίου
υἱ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ο
</supplied>
<milestone unit="block" />
Καίσαρος
<supplied reason="lost" >
πελεύθερο
</supplied>
ς
στεφανοφορήσας
τὸ
<milestone unit="block" />
δέκατον
ἑξῆς
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τὸ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ήι
</supplied>
ον
καὶ
τ
<milestone unit="block" />
προσ
<unclear reason="damage" >
κ
</unclear>
ήν
<supplied reason="lost" >
ι
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
ν
σὺν
τοῖς
<milestone unit="block" />
ἐν
αὐ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῶι
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
π
</supplied>
ροσκοσμή
<milestone unit="block" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
μα
</unclear>
σιν
πᾶσιν,
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Ἀφροδίτ
<milestone unit="block" />
καὶ
τ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ῶι
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Δήμωι
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

Caius Julius Zoilos, freedman of the divine Iulius' son Caesar, after being stephanephorus for the tenth time in succession (gave) the stage and the proscenium with all the applied ornaments on it to Aphrodite and the People.

Commentary:

See most recently Reynolds, Aphrodisias Papers 2, 15-16.

Photographs:

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