Description:
Two white marble frieze blocks: the first (W. 0.685 long) bears the mark ΑΑ; the second (W. 0.97) has [?Β]Α.
Text:
Inscribed in 3 lines on the fascia. The text began on a third, missing, block to the left.
Letters:
0.026-0.027. Star for stop.
Date:
Mid to late first century A.D. (prosopography, lettering) or a descendant.
Findspot:
Theatre: stage area
Original Location:
Theatre proskenion frieze. Inscribed on the blocks which make up the cornice, of the Doric order, above 8.1, the inscription of Zoilos, across the back of the Theatre stage. The blocks have simple moulding above, supporting water spouts in the form of lions' heads; the underside has a decoration of mutules.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1989), restored north of (unpublished), just south of porta regia.
History of discovery:
Εxcavated by the NYU expedition in 1971 (no catalogue numbers).
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.4, whence SEG 31, 1981.901; BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 296
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1981).
1[ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Τι(βέριον) ?Κλαύ] | διον Διογένην ἀρχιερέα τῆς | Ἀ̣σίας καὶ σεβαστοφάντην καὶ ἀγωνοθέ -
2[?την ·· c. 27 ··] | εὐεργέτην δίκαιον φιλάνθ[ρ]|ωπον φιλοπολείτην stop νομοθέτην δὶς γυ-
3[μνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τὰς λοι]|π̣ὰς ἀνυπερθέτως πεπλη̣|ρ̣ωκότα πάσας vac.
1[····································]ΔΙΟΝΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΤΗΣ·ΣΙΑΣΚΑΙΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΦΑΝΤΗΝΚΑΙΑΓΩΝΟΘΕ
2[··· ···························]ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΔΙΚΑΙΟΝΦΙΛΑΝΘ[·]ΩΠΟΝΦΙΛΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΗΝ stop ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΗΝΔΙΣΓΥ
3[·······························]·ΑΣΑΝΥΠΕΡΘΕΤΩΣΠΕΠΛ··ΩΚΟΤΑΠΑΣΑΣ   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
βουλὴ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
δῆμος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐτείμησαν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Τι
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
βέριον
</supplied>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Κλαύ
</supplied>
<milestone unit="block" />
διον
Διογένην
ἀρχιερέα
τῆς
<milestone unit="block" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
σίας
καὶ
σεβαστοφάντην
καὶ
ἀγωνοθέ
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
την
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="27" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<milestone unit="block" />
εὐεργέτην
δίκαιον
φιλάνθ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρ
</supplied>
<milestone unit="block" />
ωπον
φιλοπολείτην
<g type="stop" />
νομοθέτην
δὶς
γυ
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
μνασιαρχήσαντα
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τὰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀρχὰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τὰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λοι
</supplied>
<milestone unit="block" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
π
</unclear>
ὰς
ἀνυπερθέτως
πεπλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
η
</unclear>
<milestone unit="block" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
ωκότα
πάσας
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, δίκαιον omitted in first publication.

Translation:

[The Council and the People honoured Ti(berius) Clau]dius Diogenes, high-priest of Asia, and sebastophant, and contest-president[...] benefactor, just, lover of mankind, lover of the citizens, nomothete, twice gy[mnasiarch and] having carried out all [the other offices] unsurpassably.

Commentary:

This may well be the man who restored the Sebasteion portico, under Claudius and Nero. See discussion by Reynolds, loc. cit. below, and Aphrodisias Papers 2, 18.

Photographs:

b (1973)
 b (1973)
Assembled, in situ (1989)
 Assembled, in situ (1989)

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