1.196. Verse honours for Ioannes, leader of the Council
- Description:
- A rectangular white marble statue base shaft, broken in two (total H. 1.27 × W. 0.50 × D. 0.40), with panels within moulded edges on three sides.
- Text:
- Inscribed within the central panel.
- Letters:
- Av. 0.04, ll.9-10, 0.03; irregular; Ε lunate and square; ligature, ΝΗ in l.2
- Date:
- Late fifth/sixth century (language).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: re-used face downwards as a step at the north-west corner of the Bema.
- Original Location:
- Unknown; ?Bouleuterion.
- Last recorded location:
- Temple-Church.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.511).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 73 and plate xviii, whence Steinepigramme 02/09/13; not in PHI.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- cross Πατρὶς | Ἰωάννην | πρωτόθρο |νον ἀνέρα | (5) βουλῆς |
- στῆσεν | δεξαμένη | θρεπτήρια | πολλάκι | (10) πολλά.
- 1 cross ΠΑΤΡΙΣ
- 2ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ
- 3ΠΡΩΤΟΘΡΟ
- 4ΝΟΝΑΝΕΡΑ
- 5ΒΟΥΛΗΣ
- 6ΣΤΗΣΕΝ
- 7ΔΕΞΑΜΕΝΗ
- 8ΘΡΕΠΤΗΡΙΑ
- 9ΠΟΛΛΑΚΙ
- 10ΠΟΛΛΑ
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νον
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στῆσεν
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δεξαμένη
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Translation:
The fatherland set up (this statue of) Ioannes, who has the first seat in the Council, having often received from him many repayments for his rearing.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 V.51 following.
Photographs:
- Face
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- Top of base (1994)
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- Lower face, right and underside (2004)
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