Description:
Left side of a white marble upper statue base plinth comprising a rectangular inscribed area set on a curved element cut in one piece with it (W. 0.55 × H. 0.25 × D. 0.54). The upper surface is treated to receive an upper element.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.03.
Date:
Late first century B.C. (prosopography).
Findspot:
Theatre: re-used in a late wall on the north side of the north parodos
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (Theatre 10, SBI 67).
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 38, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.388, AnnEpig 1984.878, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 258, Smith, Monument, T.7.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (1982).
1[ v. ὁ] δῆμος vac. [?ἐτείμησεν]
2Γάιον Ἰούλιον Ζωίλ[ον·· ? ··]
1[··]ΔΗΜΟΣ   [·········]
2ΓΑΙΟΝΙΟΥΛΙΟΝΖΩΙΛ[·· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
δῆμος
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἐτείμησεν
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Γάιον
Ἰούλιον
Ζωίλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ον
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

...

Translation:

The people <honoured> Gaius Iulius Zoilos [ . . ? . . ]

Commentary:

See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, p.163.

Photographs:

Face (1970)
 Face (1970)
Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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