Description:
White marble statue base with moulding above and below on front and right side, still partly buried, broken away to left (W. 1.07 visible × H. 0.75 × D. 0.60).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.04
Date:
27 B.C-A.D. 50 (titulature)
Findspot:
Walls, West: reused south of the West gate.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.13, Abklatsch 44) and by Reichel (RI.5v ); by Gaudin (37); recorded by the MAMA expedition in 1934; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (SBI 97).
Bibliography:
Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, AAWW no. 13; by Reinach, from Gaudin, 24, whence Robert, RPh 4 (1930), 26, no. 2, Robert, RPh 8 (1934), 49, note 1, Buckler, RPh 9, 1935, 177-88, 187; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 431; by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 77, no. 5, whence SEG 1980.1244, BullEp 1982.355, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 191.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze (checked); publications. This edition Reynolds (1980).
1 Δία Πατρῷον
2Σεβαστὸν Καίσαρα
2a       vacat
1ΔΙΑΠΑΤΡΩΟΝ
2ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΝΚΑΙΣΑΡΑ
2a       vacat
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Δία
Πατρῷον
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Σεβαστὸν
Καίσαρα
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</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, Reinach, with an incomplete squeeze, and not knowing that the stone was complete proposed [Ἀπόλλω]ν̣α Πατρῷον; Robert corrected this (in his first article) and then saw that Kubitschek and Reichel already gave the corect reading.

Translation:

(Statue of) Zeus of our Ancestors, Augustus Caesar.

Commentary:

For the expression cf: Nero at Smyrna, Smyrna 1, l. 5, Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἡρω[^ ἀρχιερέως] καὶ σεβαστοφάντου καὶ [διὰ βίου ἀγωνοθέτου] θεᾶς Ῥώμης καὶ θεοῦ [Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαρος] Διὸς Πατρ'ου αὐτοκ[ράτορος καὶ ἀρχιερέως] μεγίστου, πατρὸς τῆ[ς πατρίδος καὶ σωτῆρος?] τοῦ σύμπαντος ἀνθ̣[ρώπων γένους

Halicarnassus: GIBM894, 4-7 Καίσαρα τὸν Σεβαστὸν ἐνεν[κ]αμένη [τ]ὸ[ν] τῷ καθ′ ἡμᾶς εὐδαίμονι βίωι πατέρα μὲν τῆς [ἑαυ]τοῦ πατ[ρ]ίδος θεᾶς Ῥώμης, Δία δὲ πατρῶον καὶ σωτῆρα τοῦ κο[ι] [ν]οῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένους

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

Representations:

Reichel notebook I, 5v
 Reichel notebook I, 5v
Kubitschek notebook V, 13
 Kubitschek notebook V, 13

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