12.925. Honours for the People of Hierapolis

Description:: Fragments from a white marble statue base shaft without moulding.
Text:: Inscribed on the face.
Letters:: Standard second-/third-century forms; ll.1-10, 0.03, ll.11-14, 0.025. Ligatures: TH, l.1; NH l.8.
Date:: Mid third century (prosopography).
Findspot:: Walls, West, near 12.924 and 12.929
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Museum (1976)
History of discovery:: Complete text copied by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 128). A large fragment copied by Reichel (R I, 8);a smaller fragment, from the left side of ll.5-9, was recorded by Gaudin (38a). That fragment has not been found again, but the larger fragment found by Reichel and another small fragment were found by the NYU expedition in 1975.
Bibliography:: Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2763, whence Liermann, Analecta 33. Fragment published, from Gaudin, by Reinach, 194, and recognized by J. M. R. Cormack, Notes on the Inscribed Monuments of Aphrodisias (Reading, 1955), p. 9. Published by Roueché, PPA 59
Text constituted from:: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); publications; notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).

1 ὁ δῆμ̣ος τῆς λαμ-

2 προτάτης Ἀφρο-

3 δ εισιέων πόλε -

4 ω ς̣ τὸν λαμπρό-

5 τατον δῆμον

6 Ἱεραπολειτῶν

7 συ ν̣θύσαντα ἐπὶ

8 τῇ δεδομένῃ τοῦ

9 ἱεροῦ ἀγῶνος δω -

10 vac. ρεᾷ vac.

11 προν οησαμένου Μ(άρκου) Αὐρ(ηλίου)

12 Παπίο υ τοῦ Παπίου δ´ τοῦ

13 Διογένο̣υ̣ς̣ τοῦ πρωτο-

14 λόγου ἄρχ οντος τὸ β´

15 vac.

1[·][··]·ΟΣΤΗΣΛΑΜ

2[··]ΟΤΑΤΗΣΑΦΡΟ

3[·]ΕΙΣΙΕΩΝΠΟΛΕ

4[·]·ΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡΟ

5[··]ΤΟΝΔΗΜΟΝ

6[···]ΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

7[··]·ΘΥΣΑΝΤΑΕΠΙ

8[··][·]ΕΔΟΜΕΝΗΤΟΥ

9[····]ΥΑΓΩΝΟΣΔΩ

10 ΡΕΑ

11[····]ΟΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΥΜΑΥΡ

12[·····]ΥΤΟΥΠΑΠΙΟΥΔΤΟΥ

13[······]···ΤΟΥΠΡΩΤΟ

14[·····][···]ΟΝΤΟΣΤΟΒ

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ὁ

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</rdg>

δῆ

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</app>

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ος

τῆς

λαμ

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πρ

</rdg>

</app>

οτάτης

Ἀφρο

</rdg>

</rdg>

</app>

εισιέων

πόλε

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</rdg>

</app>

</unclear>

τὸν

λαμπρό

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τα

</rdg>

</app>

τον

δῆμον

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Ἱερ

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</app>

απολειτῶν

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συ

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</app>

</unclear>

θύσαντα

ἐπὶ

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τῇ

</rdg>

</app>

</rdg>

</rdg>

</app>

εδομένῃ

τοῦ

</rdg>

ἱερο

</rdg>

</app>

ῦ

ἀγῶνος

δω

ρεᾷ

</rdg>

προν

</rdg>

</app>

οησαμένου

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<abbr>

</abbr>

άρκου

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Αὐρ

</abbr>

ηλίου

</supplied>

</expan>

</rdg>

Παπίο

</rdg>

</app>

τοῦ

Παπίου

</num>

τοῦ

</rdg>

Διογέν

</rdg>

</app>

ους

</unclear>

τοῦ

πρωτο

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λόγου

</rdg>

</app>

</rdg>

ἄρχ

</rdg>

</app>

οντος

τὸ

</num>

</ab>

Apparatus

The letters read by Sherard but not by us have been highlighted

Translation:

The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (honoured) the most splendid People of the Hierapolitans, who joined in the sacrifice for the giving of the grant of the sacred contest. Under the supervision of Marcus Aurelius Papias son of Papias son of Papias son of Papias son of Papias son of Papias son of Diogenes, first Archon for the second time.

Commentary:

This is one of a group of dedications for neighbouring communities: see 12.924, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, 12.929 and 12.930. See further Roueché PPA, ad loc.