Description:
White marble statue base capital.
Text:
Inscribed on two fasciae with approx 3 lines of moulding between them.
Letters:
c. 0.30; diaeretic dots around first Ε, l. 2.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot:
City, North-west: built into a field wall NW of the Temple, just S. of the old road to the West gate
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1977)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Paris & Holleaux; by Gaudin (67); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Paris & Holleaux, BCH (1885), no. 11; from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, 63, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 85 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [?Μ(ᾶρκος) stop Φλ(άβιος) stop ] [Ἀντώ]ν(ιος) stop Λυσίμαχος stop σοφιστὴς
2 vac. ἀρχιερεύς vac.
1[······ ········· ··][····]Ν stop ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΣ stop ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ
2   ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Μ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ᾶρκος
</supplied>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<g type="stop" />
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άβιος
</supplied>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<g type="stop" />
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀντώ
</supplied>
ν
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ιος
</supplied>
</expan>
<g type="stop" />
Λυσίμαχος
<g type="stop" />
σοφιστὴς
<lb n="2" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἀρχιερεύς
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, It is not clear where to locate the supplied text - presumably on an upper feature.

Translation:

[M(arcus) Fl(avius) Anto]n(ius) Lysimachos the sophist. High priest.

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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