8.407. Verse honours for ?a governor
- Description:
- Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft (total H. H. c. 1.35. diam. 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.
- Date:
- Fifth century (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the western colonnade of the tetrastoon, immediately south of 8.410; fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving. .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot and Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition, main part in 1972, fragment in 1973 (73.206).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 64 and plate xvi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 728, Steinepigramme 02/09/26.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· c. 13 ··] ἔρνος | [·· c. 12 ··]Λ̣ΗΟΣ |
- 2[·· c. 12 ··]ΙΝΟΡΑΣ | [·· ? ··] |
- 3(5) [·· ? ··] | λ̣[··]ΣΗΣ Ἀ̣φροδ[ίτη]ν̣ |
- 4ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεσί |πτολιν ἐξελάσαντα leaf
- 1[·············]ΕΡΝΟΣ
- 2[············]·ΗΟΣ
- 3[············]ΙΝΟΡΑΣ
- 4[ - - - ]
- 5[ - - - ]
- 6·[··]ΣΗΣ·ΦΡΟΔ[···]·
- 7ΕΝΦΥΛΙΟΝΔΗΡΙΝΟΛΕΣΙ
- 8ΠΤΟΛΙΝΕΞΕΛΑΣΑΝΤΑ leaf
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extent="13"
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ἔρνος
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n="2"
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extent="12"
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<orig
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</l>
<unclear
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λ
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ηοσ
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<l
n="2"
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<gap
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extent="12"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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<orig
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ινορασ
</orig>
<lb
n="4"
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<gap
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extent="16-18"
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<lb
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<l
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<gap
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extent="16-18"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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<lb
n="6"
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<unclear
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λ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
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σησ
</orig>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ἀ
</unclear>
φροδ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ίτη
</supplied>
<unclear
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</l>
ν
</unclear>
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ἐνφύλιον
δῆριν
ὀλεσί
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πτολιν
ἐξελάσαντα
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Translation:
[·· ? ··] offspring [·· ? ··] Aphrodite, (he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 V.37.
Photographs:
- Base in position, with 8.410 (1976)
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- Base (1976)
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- Detail, left (1972)
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- Detail, right (1972)
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- Upper right corner fragment (1973)
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- Fragments assembled (1977)
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