Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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64. Verse honours for a governor
Description
- Monument:
Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft (total H. c. 1.35. diam. 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.
- Text:
Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.
- Date:
Fifth century (lettering).
Text
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[... c. 13 ...] ἔρνος
| [... c. 12 ...]λ̣ηοσ |
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[... c. 12 ...]ινορασ
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(5) [...]
| λ̣[..]σησ Ἀ̣φροδ[ίτη]ν̣ |
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ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεσί
|πτολιν ἐξελάσαντα leaf .
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Translation
[...] offspring [...] Aphrodite, (he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.
Photographs
| Base in position, with ALA 62 (1976) |
Base (1976) |
Detail, left (1972) |
Detail, right (1972) |
Upper right corner fragment (1973) |
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| Fragments assembled (1977) |
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Commentary
See discussion at V.37.
Locations
- Found:
Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the western colonnade of the tetrastoon, immediately south of 62; fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving. See plan 6.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot and Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition, main part in 1972, fragment in 1973 (73.206).
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 64 and plate xvi, whence PHI 728, Steinepigramme 02/09/26.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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