Description:
White marble block, broken.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.02.
Date:
Augustan (lettering, prosopography).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: in the area of the façade
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1904)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (110); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 127-128, no. 54, whence R. Vagts, 35, n.8, Giuliano, ASAA 27-28, 1959-1960, 392, Robert, AC 35, 1966, 414, discussed by S. Weinstock, Divus Julius (Oxford, 1971), 140 ff. Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 33, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.388, AnnEpig 1984.878, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 284, Smith, Monument, T.6.
Text constituted from:
Transcription from squeeze (Reynolds); Publications This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 [ἡ] βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτ[ε]ίμησεν
2 [Γά]ϊον Ἰούλιον Ζωΐλον τὸν
3 [ἱερ]έα τῆς Ἀφροδίτης καὶ τῆς
4 [Ἐλε]υθερίας διὰ βίου
1[·]ΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤ[·]ΙΜΗΣΕΝ
2[··]ΙΟΝΙΟΥΛΙΟΝΖΩΙΛΟΝΤΟΝ
3[···]ΕΑΤΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣΚΑΙΤΗΣ
4[···]ΥΘΕΡΙΑΣΔΙΑΒΙΟΥ
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βουλὴ
καὶ
δῆμος
ἐτ
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ε
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ίμησεν
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Γά
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ϊον
Ἰούλιον
Ζωΐλον
τὸν
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ἱερ
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έα
τῆς
Ἀφροδίτης
καὶ
τῆς
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Ἐλε
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υθερίας
διὰ
βίου
</ab>

Translation:

The council and the people honoured C. Iulius Zoilos, the priest of Aphrodite and of Eleutheria for life.

Commentary:

See Aphrodisias & Rome, loc. cit., and 'Ruler-cult', 43

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

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