12.514. Honours for Emperor Tiberius

Description:
Upper part of a white marble statue base with upper moulding on at least three sides (shaft W. 0.62 - top W. 0.70 × H. 0.40 × D. 0.70), broken below; the moulding has been chipped away roughly for re-use.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025-0.03
Date:
14-37 A.D. (reign)
Findspot:
Reused in the south east stretch of the Walls, South-east, south of the South-east gate, near 12.515 (MAMA 447), 12.510 (430), 12.516 (599).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
in situ
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (75); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1977.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 25; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 434, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 200.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Τιβέριον Καίσαρα
2 θεοῦ υἱὸν Σεβαστὸν
3[Ἰ]ουλία Παῦλα καὶ Ἰο̣υ̣[λ]ί̣α̣
4[·· c. 9 ·· θ]υ̣
4a[·· ? ··
1ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝΚΑΙΣΑΡΑ
2ΘΕΟΥΥΙΟΝΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΝ
3[·]ΟΥΛΙΑΠΑΥΛΑΚΑΙΙ··[·]··
4[··········]·
4a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Τιβέριον
Καίσαρα
<lb n="2" />
θεοῦ
υἱὸν
Σεβαστὸν
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἰ
</supplied>
ουλία
Παῦλα
καὶ
Ἰ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ου
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ία
</unclear>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
θ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
</ab>
<ab>
<unclear reason="damage" >
γάτ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ερες
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l.3, Ιο̣υ̣[λια] R, MAMA; only the top serifs of the last letters are visible.

l.4, Only the tops of the letters are visible.

Translation:

Tiberius Caesar Augustus son of (the) god: Julia Paula and Julia [ . .? . . ] daughters [of . . ? . . put up his statue]

Commentary:

The layout suggests two sisters (the cognomen of the second at the beginning of l.3) whose father's name appeared in l.5.

A Julia Paula of the early third century A.D. is described on her tomb (12.909 =MAMA 564) as a descendant of those responsible for the city's autonomy, τῶν συναιτίων τῇ πόλει τῆς αὐτονομία, in view of which it is tempting to relate her to Julius Zoilos, together, perhaps, with this earlier Julia Paula.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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