Description:
'An inscription from a pedestal'; 'A statue base' (Bailie).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
No measurements. Ligatures: ΤΗ, l.5, 6, 12, ΝΗ, l.13
Date:
? After 212 A.D. (nomenclature)
Findspot:
City, Village: 'near the amphitheatre'; 'virgultis paene obruto incidi dum iter a theatro ad vicum Gheyerah facerem' Bailie.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1842)
History of discovery:
Copied by Bailie, (Researches 34 and 82: 'in truth, I may be said to have excavated in search of it, it lay so concealed in rubbish and underwood'); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Bailie, no 61, whence LBW 1596bis, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 349 .
Text constituted from:
Publications This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [···]
2 τὸν ἀξιολογώτατον
3 πρῶτον ἄρχοντα δὶς
4 ταμίαν γραμματέα
5 δήμου δὶς ἀρχινεω-
6ποιὸν τῆς θεοῦ Ἀφρο-
7δείτης πολλάκις ἀγορά-
8νομον καὶ πάσας τὰς
9 μεγίστας ἀρχὰς [ἐκ]-
10τελέσαντα [κ]αὶ ἐ[ν]
11 ταῖς λοιπαῖς ἐπ[ι]-
12δόσεσιν χρήσιμ[α π]ρ[α]-
13ξαντα τῇ πατρίδι [σ]υν-
14γ[ε]νῆ Τιβερίου Κλ[αυ]-
15δίου Αὐρηλ[ίου] Κ[απ]ε-
16τωλείνο[υ···]
1[···]
2ΤΟΝΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΝ
3ΠΡΩΤΟΝΑΡΧΟΝΤΑΔΙΣ
4ΤΑΜΙΑΝΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑ
5ΔΗΜΟΥΔΙΣΑΡΧΙΝΕΩ
6ΠΟΙΟΝΤΗΣΘΕΟΥΑΦΡΟ
7ΔΕΙΤΗΣΠΟΛΛΑΚΙΣΑΓΟΡΑ
8ΝΟΜΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΣΑΣΤΑΣ
9ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΣΑΡΧΑΣ[··]
10ΤΕΛΕΣΑΝΤΑ[·]ΑΙΕ[·]
11ΤΑΙΣΛΟΙΠΑΙΣΕΠ[·]
12ΔΟΣΕΣΙΝΧΡΗΣΙΜ[··]Ρ[·]
13ΞΑΝΤΑΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ[·]ΥΝ
14Γ[·]ΝΗΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥΚΛ[··]
15ΔΙΟΥΑΥΡΗΛ[···]Κ[··]Ε
16ΤΩΛΕΙΝΟ[····]
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<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
τὸν
ἀξιολογώτατον
<lb n="3" />
πρῶτον
ἄρχοντα
δὶς
<lb n="4" />
ταμίαν
γραμματέα
<lb n="5" />
δήμου
δὶς
ἀρχινεω
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
ποιὸν
τῆς
θεοῦ
Ἀφρο
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
δείτης
πολλάκις
ἀγορά
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
νομον
καὶ
πάσας
τὰς
<lb n="9" />
μεγίστας
ἀρχὰς
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐκ
</supplied>
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
τελέσαντα
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κ
</supplied>
αὶ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<lb n="11" />
ταῖς
λοιπαῖς
ἐπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ι
</supplied>
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
δόσεσιν
χρήσιμ
<supplied reason="lost" >
α
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
π
</supplied>
ρ
<supplied reason="lost" >
α
</supplied>
<lb n="13" type="worddiv" />
ξαντα
τῇ
πατρίδι
<supplied reason="lost" >
σ
</supplied>
υν
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
γ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ε
</supplied>
νῆ
Τιβερίου
Κλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αυ
</supplied>
<lb n="15" type="worddiv" />
δίου
Αὐρηλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ίου
</supplied>
Κ
<supplied reason="lost" >
απ
</supplied>
ε
<lb n="16" type="worddiv" />
τωλείνο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[...]the most noteworthy, chief archon twice, treasurer, secretary of the People twice, chief neopoios of the goddess Aphrodite several times, agoranomos, having held all the highest offices and served his homeland usefully on all the remaining occasions for benefactions, a relation of Tiberius Claudius Aurelius Kapitoleinos[...]

Commentary:

The translation assumes that the figures are to be taken with the office which precedes, not that which follows. For the family see prosopography.

Photographs:
none.

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