1.109. Dedication to Aphrodite by Artemidoros
- Description:
- Four joining fragments of a low white marble base (W. c. 1.10 × H. 0.32 × D. 0.25); . On top are traces of the lost statuary; on the right the socle of an attached column, on the left a socket.
- Text:
- Inscribed face W. c. 0.98 × H. 0.18
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.03
- Date:
- Perhaps first century B.C. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- b. & c. Temple/Church xiv, Stratum 1; a. South Agora: in stonepile, W. Portico of Tiberius.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition over several years (c. 62.95, b. 62.96, a. 74.274)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 26, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.386, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 153.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 Ἀρτεμίδ̣[ωρ]ος Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ἀπολ̣[λωνίου] [·· c. 6 ··]
- 2Ἀ̣φ[ρ]ο̣δίτ̣[ῃ] ὃν ἐπηνγίλα̣το Ἀρτεμίδωρ̣[ος Ἀπολλωνίου]
- 1ΑΡΤΕΜΙ·[··]ΟΣΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΑΠΟ·[······][······]
- 2·Φ[·]·ΔΙ·[·]ΟΝΕΠΗΝΓΙΛ·ΤΟΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩ·[············]
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Ἀρτεμί
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reason="damage"
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δ
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reason="lost"
>
ωρ
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ος
Ἀρτεμιδώρου
τοῦ
Ἀπο
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reason="damage"
>
λ
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reason="lost"
>
λωνίου
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reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
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n="2"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ἀ
</unclear>
φ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ρ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
δί
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
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reason="lost"
>
ῃ
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ὃν
ἐπηνγίλ
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reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
το
Ἀρτεμίδω
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reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ος
</supplied>
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reason="lost"
>
</ab>
Ἀπολλωνίου
</supplied>
Apparatus
l. 1, Perhaps θεᾷ at the end
l. 2, The name of the goddess was probably erased in the Christian period.
Translation:
Artemidoros son of Artemidoros the son of Apol[lonios] to Aphrodite (or) [the goddess] Aphrodite, (the statuary) which Artemidoros [?son of Apollonios] promised.
Commentary:
See bibliography
Photographs:
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