Description:
White marble statue base (W. 0.53 × H. 1.11 × D. 0.53). The block is complete, although slightly chipped along the upper edge, and damaged at the lower right side;
Text:
Inscribed on the face. The text must have begun on an upper block within a composite monument.
Letters:
ll. 1-18, 0.025 - 0.0275; l.l 19-22, 0.02. Ligatures: ΜΗ, l. 1; NB, l.5; ΜΕ, l.6; TH, ll. 11, 14, 19; ΜΗΜ, l.14; Apices on initial I, l. 10
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): just north of the South-east Gate, between 8.27 (=MAMA 405) and 12.326 (=451)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Doublet and Deschamps; by K&R (unpublished); recorded by Gaudin (82); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (the lower part buried).
Bibliography:
Published Doublet & Deschamps, BCH 14, 1890, 610-611, no. 6, whence Ziebarth, ZVRW 16, 1903, 292, no. 62, Laum no. 113; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 128, no. 55; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 524, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 236
Text constituted from:
Publications; Gaudin; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0[(e.g.) ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος]
1[ἐτεί]μ̣ησ̣[ενΛ]ο̣[ύκι]ο̣[ν]
2Ἀντώνιον Λουκίου
3Ἀντωνίου Ζωσᾶ υἱὸν
4Ζωσᾶν stop ἄνδρα καλὸν
5καὶ ἀγαθὸν βίῳ κεχρη-
6μένον καὶ χρώμενον
7πράῳ καὶ ἐπιεικεῖ ἀρ-
8χικὸν καὶ λειτουργὸν
9καὶ ἀνατεθεικότα τῷ
10ἱερωτάτῳ συνεδρίῳ
11τῆς βουλῆς εἰς αἰωνί-
12ους κλήρους (δηνάρια) ͵γ
13καὶ τῇ γερουσίᾳ (δηνάρια) ͵γ
14τετειμημένον ὑπὸ τῆς
15βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ δήμου
16καὶ διὰ ψηφι[σμάτων]
17 v. καὶ ἀναστά̣[σεως v. ]
18 vac. ἀνδριάν̣[τ]ων vac. ]
18a        vacat
19ἐπιμελησαμένου τῆς ἀνα-
20στάσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος
21Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Φλ(αουίου) Μενιππιανοῦ
22 vac. Γλαυκίππου vac.
22a        vacat
0[························]
1[····]·Η·[··][·]·[···]·[·]
2ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ
3ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΖΩΣΑΥΙΟΝ
4ΖΩΣΑΝ stop ΑΝΔΡΑΚΑΛΟΝ
5ΚΑΙΑΓΑΘΟΝΒΙΩΚΕΧΡΗ
6ΜΕΝΟΝΚΑΙΧΡΩΜΕΝΟΝ
7ΠΡΑΩΚΑΙΕΠΙΕΙΚΕΙΑΡ
8ΧΙΚΟΝΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΟΝ
9ΚΑΙΑΝΑΤΕΘΕΙΚΟΤΑΤΩ
10ΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΩΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΩ
11ΤΗΣΒΟΥΛΗΣΕΙΣΑΙΩΝΙ
12ΟΥΣΚΛΗΡΟΥΣ denarius Γ
13ΚΑΙΤΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑ denarius Γ
14ΤΕΤΕΙΜΗΜΕΝΟΝΥΠΟΤΗΣ
15ΒΟΥΛΗΣΚΑΙΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥ
16ΚΑΙΔΙΑΨΗΦΙ[······]
17 ΚΑΙΑΝΑΣΤ·[···· ·]
18   ΑΝΔΡΙΑ·[·]ΩΝ   ]
18a       vacat
19ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΥΤΗΣΑΝΑ
20ΣΤΑΣΕΩΣΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣ
21ΜΑΡΑΥΡΦΛΜΕΝΙΠΠΙΑΝΟΥ
22     ΓΛΑΥΚΙΠΠΟΥ     
22a       vacat
<ab>
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<supplied reason="lost" >
<note>
e.g.
</note>
βουλὴ
καὶ
δῆμος
</supplied>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐτεί
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
η
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
εν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Λ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ύκι
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Ἀντώνιον
Λουκίου
<lb n="3" />
Ἀντωνίου
Ζωσᾶ
υἱὸν
<lb n="4" />
Ζωσᾶν
<g type="stop" />
ἄνδρα
καλὸν
<lb n="5" />
καὶ
ἀγαθὸ
ν
β
ίῳ
κεχρη
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
μένον
καὶ
χρώ
με
νον
<lb n="7" />
πράῳ
καὶ
ἐπιεικεῖ
ἀρ
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
χικὸν
καὶ
λειτουργὸν
<lb n="9" />
καὶ
ἀνατεθεικότα
τῷ
<lb n="10" />
ἱερωτάτῳ
συνεδρίῳ
<lb n="11" />
τῆ
ς
βουλῆς
εἰς
αἰωνί
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
ους
κλήρους
<expan>
<abbr>
<orig >
<g type="denarius" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
δηνάρια
</supplied>
</expan>
<num value="3000" >
γ
</num>
<lb n="13" />
καὶ
τῇ
γερουσίᾳ
<expan>
<abbr>
<orig >
<g type="denarius" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
δηνάρια
</supplied>
</expan>
<num value="3000" >
γ
</num>
<lb n="14" />
τετει
μημ
ένον
ὑπὸ
τῆ
ς
<lb n="15" />
βουλῆς
καὶ
τοῦ
δήμου
<lb n="16" />
καὶ
διὰ
ψηφι
<supplied reason="lost" >
σμάτων
</supplied>
<lb n="17" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
καὶ
ἀναστ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
σεως
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<lb n="18" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἀνδριά
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ων
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
]
<lb n="18a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="19" />
ἐπιμελησαμένου
τῆ
ς
ἀνα
<lb n="20" type="worddiv" />
στάσεως
τοῦ
ἀνδριάντος
<lb n="21" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Μάρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
κου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αουίου
</supplied>
</expan>
Μενιππιανοῦ
<lb n="22" />
<space extent="5" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Γλαυκίππου
<space extent="5" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="22a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The first letters of ll. 19-22 could not be read by the NYU expedition.

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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