43. Ampelius, father of the city, restores the 'palaestra'

Description

Monument: Odeon/Bouleuterion stage rim, which is 0.10 high. The rim was broken in several places: it has been largely restored, but four fragments are still loose.
Text: Cut along the rim of the stage. The total length of the text is c. 7.65.
Letters: 0.06-0.07; scroll for abbreviation; well cut.
Date: Mid fifth century.

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ἐπὶ εὐτυχίᾳ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ἀφροδισιαί[ων] μητροπό]λεω[ς] καὶ [το]ῦτο τὸ ἔργον τῆς παλέστρας ἐγέν[ετο ἐπὶ ?Φλαβίου Ἀμπελίου] το[ῦ] ἐλλογιμ(ωτάτου) σχ(ολαστικοῦ) καὶ π[ατρ]ός, ἰνδ(ικτιῶνι) ι´ εὐτυχ(εστάτῃ).

Translation

For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the Aphrodisians, this work of the palaestra also took place [?under Flavius Ampelius] the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the tenth indiction. With good fortune.

Apparatus

ἰνδ(ικτίωνος) ι´, εὐτυχ(ῶς) ALA; ἰνδ(ικτιῶνι) ι´ εὐτυχ(εστάτῃ) Feissel.

The letters on the loose fragments are underlined in the text.

Photographs

View (1973) Part (1973) Part (1973) Detail, 1 (1972) Detail, 2 (1972)

Detail, 3 (1972) Detail, 4 (1972) Detail, 5 (1972) Detail, 6 (1972) Detail, 7 (1972)

Detail, 8 (1972) Detail, 9 (1972) Detail, 10 (1972) Fragment (1977)

Commentary

See discussion at IV.21 following.

For Ampelius, see also 38, 42, 44 and list of local officials Ampelius.

Locations

Found: Bouleuterion/Odeon: on the stage rim; see plan 1.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot; fragments in Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963.
Bibliography: Published by •Erim, ILN 21 Dec. 1963, 1028; by •Roueché (1979), 176, no. 2, whence BE 1980:473; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 43 and plate, whence PHI 620.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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