Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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8. Verse honours for a governor

Description

• Monument: A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, standing on a high plinth. The column has been re-used; decoration in relief survives on what is now the back.
• Text: Inscribed on the upper part of the shaft.
• Letters: 0.03.
• Date: Third/fourth century (lettering).

Text

Translation

[...] not bought [...] from the marble [?in his own/in their] tongue, to pour out the laws and to ?recall, the tribunal of the [...] (?)

Apparatus

l.4 quae for que (Feissel, JRA, Jones, per litteras).

Photographs

Face: right view (1977)	Face: left view (1977)	Back (2004)	Right side (2004)	Left side (2004)
Face (2004)	View (2004)

Commentary

Jones has offed the conjecture [cel]sumque referre tribunal; but the surviving letter before UM does not appear to be an S.

See discussion at II.15.

Locations

• Found: North Temenos House: standing in the north-east corner of a large central room or court. See plan 5.
• Original: Findspot.
• Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 8, whence PHI 397, Steinepigramme 02/09/25.
• Text constituted from: Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).

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