Description:
Fragment of a ?statue base
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.07
Date:
No description
Findspot:
Walls, North-east: 'Porte nord, exterieurement'. Outside the North East gate, with the fragments of 12.105 (=CIG 2786).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1893)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (93.1); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 100, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 370 .
Text constituted from:
Publications; Gaudin This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]α τὰ δέοντα δι' ἅπερ ἐστὶ Μ[·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ··]· ταῖς πόλεσιν οὐ μόνον Ο[·· ? ··]
4[·· ? ·· ἀλ]λὰ καὶ πολυωφελεῖς π[·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··] τ̣ὸν μεγαλοφυέ[στατον ·· ? ··]
6[·· ? ··] πρὸς δὲ τὴ[ν πόλιν ·· ? ··]
1·· ? ··]
2[ - - - ]ΑΤΑΔΕΟΝΤΑΔΙ'ΑΠΕΡΕΣΤΙΜ[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]·ΤΑΙΣΠΟΛΕΣΙΝΟΥΜΟΝΟΝΟ[ - - - ]
4[ - - - ··]ΛΑΚΑΙΠΟΛΥΩΦΕΛΕΙΣΠ[ - - - ]
5[ - - - ]·ΟΝΜΕΓΑΛΟΦΥΕ[······ - - - ]
6[ - - - ]ΠΡΟΣΔΕΤΗ[······ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
α
τὰ
δέοντα
δι'
ἅπερ
ἐστὶ
Μ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
ταῖς
πόλεσιν
οὐ
μόνον
Ο
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀλ
</supplied>
λὰ
καὶ
πολυωφελεῖς
π
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
μεγαλοφυέ
<supplied reason="lost" >
στατον
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
πρὸς
δὲ
τὴ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πόλιν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

] [...] the necessary things through which [...] to the cities not only [...] but also very beneficial [...] the Most Eminent [...] and to the [?city] [...]

Commentary:

The phrasing suggests a letter from a ruler or an official.

Photographs:
none.

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