8.261. Honours for an amicus principum
- Description:
- White marble ?masonry block (H. 0.35 × W. 0.22 × D. 0.42) with upper and lower edges surviving, and with rough sides; either cut down, or from a composite monument.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, which is extremely worn.
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.04; simple, elongated, shallowly cut; similar to those of 5.302.
- Date:
- First half of the fourth century (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Theatre: sector V
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.401; recatalogued as 74.280).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 15, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 454 (wrongly) and 665.
- Text constituted from:
- Copies (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]Ο̣Μ̣Ν v. Ο̣Ι̣ ̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]φίλον τῶν βα[σιλέων]·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]··Ν ·······[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]ΦΙΛΟΝΤΩΝΒΑ[······] - - - ]
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n="1"
/>
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reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ομ
</unclear>
ν
</orig>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
οι ιιιι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
φίλον
τῶν
βα
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
σιλέων
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] friend of the emperors [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See also 5.215 and discussion at ala2004 II.25.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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