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·[············]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀρτεμί
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ωρ
</supplied>
ος
Ἀρτεμιδώρου
τοῦ
Ἀπο
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λωνίου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
φ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
δί
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ὃν
ἐπηνγίλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
το
Ἀρτεμίδω
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀπολλωνίου
</supplied>
</ab>

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:

Fragment a. (1977)
 Fragment a. (1977)
Fragments a. & b. (1977)
 Fragments a. & b. (1977)
Fragments b. & c. (1977)
 Fragments b. & c. (1977)
Assembled (1978)
 Assembled (1978)

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