Description:
Upper part of a white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels on at least two sides (W. 0.55 × W. 0.54 × D. 0.36), damaged above and broken away below.
Text:
Inscribed on the face (W. 0.35 x H. 0.42), which is very weathered.
Letters:
0.02; ligatures: ΝΤ, l.2; ΤΗ l. 3; ΜΕ l.10; ΤΗΝ l.12; ΝΗ l.12. Apex on initial A, l.2.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Temple/Church: probably reused in the south side of the Byzantine bema-rail
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (KIII.21, Abklatsch 68); squeezed by Gaudin (48); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (SBI 104)
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 208, no. 86, whence Laum, no. 115, and discussed by L. Robert, Études Anatoliennes 317; by Cormack, from the MAMA records and from Kubitschek, MAMA 8, no. 523, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 362
Text constituted from:
publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0 ·· ? ··]
0a[(e.g.) πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει]-
1το̣υρ̣γ̣ί̣α̣ς̣ [·· ? ·· ?ἐκτελέ]-
2 σαντ̣ος stop ἀναθ[έντος]
3 δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατί[στῃ]
4β̣ουλ̣ῇ καὶ τῷ σ̣[ε]-
5μνοτάτῳ̣ καὶ ἀρχ[αι]-
6οτάτῳ̣ σ̣υνεδρίῳ
7 τῶν χ̣ρυσοφόρων
8ν̣ε̣ο̣π̣οιῶν εἰς αἰω-
9νί̣ους κλή̣ρ̣ους ἀρ-
10γύριον γεν̣όμενον
11 καὶ αὐτὸν βουλευ-
12τήν stop ἐλεωνήσαντα
13 καὶ νε̣οπυήσαντα
14φιλοτείμ̣ως star καὶ
15[παραφυλ]ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣τ̣α̣
15a[·· ? ··
0·· ? ··]
0a[·······················]
1Τ·[ - - - ·····[ - - - ······]
2[····ΟΣ stop ΑΝΑ[·[·····]
3[··[·ΑΙΤΗΚΡΑΤΙ[···]
4·[···ΗΚΑΙΤΩ·[·]
5ΜΝΟΤΑΤ·ΚΑΙΑΡΧ[··]
6ΟΤΑΤ··ΥΝΕΔΡΙΩ
7ΤΩΝ·ΡΥΣΟΦΟΡΩΝ
8····ΟΙΩΝΕΙΣΑΙΩ
9Ν·ΟΥΣΚΛ··ΟΥΣΑΡ
10ΓΥΡΙΟΝΓΕ·ΟΜΕΝΟΝ
11ΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΝΒΟΥΛΕΥ
12ΤΗΝ stop ΕΛΕΩΝΗΣΑΝΤΑ
13ΚΑΙΝ·ΟΠΥΗΣΑΝΤΑ
14ΦΙΛΟΤΕΙ·ΩΣ star ΚΑΙ
15[·······]······
15a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="0a" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<note>
e.g.
</note>
πάσας
ἀρχὰς
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λει
</supplied>
<lb n="1" type="worddiv" />
τ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
υ
</rdg>
</app>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ργίας
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἐκτελέ
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
σα
ν
</rdg>
</app>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ος
<g type="stop" />
ἀνα
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
θ
</rdg>
</app>
<supplied reason="lost" >
έντος
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
δὲ
</rdg>
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
κ
</rdg>
</app>
αὶ
τῇ
κρατί
<supplied reason="lost" >
στῃ
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
β
</unclear>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
ου
</rdg>
</app>
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
καὶ
τῷ
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ε
</supplied>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
μνοτάτ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
καὶ
ἀρχ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αι
</supplied>
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
οτάτ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
υνεδρίῳ
<lb n="7" />
τῶν
<unclear reason="damage" >
χ
</unclear>
ρυσοφόρων
<lb n="8" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
νεοπ
</unclear>
οιῶν
εἰς
αἰω
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ν
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
ους
κλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ήρ
</unclear>
ους
ἀρ
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
γύριον
γε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
με
νον
<lb n="11" />
καὶ
αὐτὸν
βουλευ
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
τήν
<g type="stop" />
ἐλεω
νή
σαντα
<lb n="13" />
καὶ
ν
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
οπυήσαντα
<lb n="14" />
φιλοτεί
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
ως
<g type="star" />
καὶ
<lb n="15" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
παραφυλ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
άξαντα
</unclear>
<lb n="15a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were seen by earlier readers, but not by the NYU expedition.

ll.1-3 [πάσας ἀρχὰς καὶ λει]/ τουργίας [ἐκτελέ]/σαντος ἀναθ[έντος]/ δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατίστῃ/ βούλῃ MAMA: the highlighted letters were read from K&R.

l. 2, σαντος ἀναθ[έντος] K&R; [ . . . .]Ο̣ΣΑΝΤΑΦ[ . . . . .] Reinach. We read Σ stop ΑΝ[ l.15 [ . . . . . [ΑΡΞΑΝΤA Reinach; [παραφυλ]ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣τ̣α̣ MAMA; [παραφυ]λ̣ά̣ξ̣α̣ν̣[τα] MB [[who?]]

Translation:

... who had] filled [?all magistracies and] liturgies and havng dedicated money to the most powerful council and the most holy and ancient commission of the gold-wearing neopoioi (?temple-builders) with a view to perpetual distributions by lot, he himself having been, with distinction, a councillor, ?a provider of oil, a neopoios; and having ?guarded [...

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook III, 21
 Kubitschek notebook III, 21

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