1.183. Honours for Aurelia Kelesteina

Description:: Seven adjoining fragments of a white marble base.
Text:: Inscribed on the face within a moulded panel
Letters:: 0.0275-0.03
Date:: Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Temple/Church: in the area of the bema, where the base was most probably re-used
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
History of discovery:: a (ll. 1-7) recorded by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (SBI 102). b (ll 6-9), recorded by Gaudin (29) but not subsequently. c (ll. 2-7), d (ll. 7-9) e (ll. 10-13), f (ll.15-16) and g (Temple 55, SBI 105: ends of ll.13-15) only recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:: a published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 208, no. 87; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 515 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 251. b published by Reinach from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 111
Text constituted from:: Publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).

1 ἡ βου̣λ̣ὴ̣ κ̣[αὶ ὁ]

2 δῆμος ἐτεί-

3μησαν ταῖς καλ-

4λίσταις καὶ π[ρε]-

5πούσαις τε[ι]-

6μαῖς Αὐρηλίαν

7[Κ]ε̣λε[στείναν

8γυνα[ῖκα Μ(άρκου) Αὐρ(ηλίου)

9Γαιτ[υλικοῦ

10[ἀ]π̣ελ[ευθέρου]

11[κ]αὶ ἐπιτρ̣[όπου]

12[τ]ῶν Σεβασ[τῶν]

13[τ]ὴν ἀξιολογω-

14[τ]άτην ἀνθηφό-

15ρον καὶ θυγατέ̣-

16ρα τ[ῆς πό]λεως

16a vacat

1ΗΒΟ····[····]

2ΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙ

3ΜΗΣΑΝΤΑΙΣΚΑΛ

4ΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΚΑΙΠ[··]

5ΠΟΥΣΑΙΣΤΕ[·]

6ΜΑΙΣΑΥΡΗΛΙ[ - - -

7[·]·ΛΕ[·······]

8ΓΥΝΑ[···[ - - -

9ΓΑΙΤ[······]

10[·]·ΕΛ[·······]

11[·]ΑΙΕΠΙΤ·[····]

12[·]ΩΝΣΕΒΑΣ[···]

13[·]ΗΝΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩ

14[·]ΑΤΗΝΑΝΘΗΦΟ

15ΡΟΝΚΑΙΘΥΓΑΤ·

16ΡΑΤ[····]ΛΕΩΣ

16a vacat

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Apparatus

The letters highlighted were on the fragment seen by Gaudin but not reported subsequently.

Translation:

The Council and the People honoured with the finest honours, Aurelia Kelesteina, wife of M. Aurelius Gaitulikos freedman and procurator of the Augusti, most worthy flower-bearer of the goddess and daughter of the city.