Description:
White marble block with moulding chipped away above (H. 0.515 × W. 0.75 × D. 0.46).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.04
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, South-west, reused as a well-head south west of the Theatre
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1975)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (III, 44) and noted by Reichel (I, 16v)l; by the MAMA expedition; and by the NYU expedition in 1973.
Bibliography:
Published from the MAMA records by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 466 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 263
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebooks; publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0?·· ? ··]
1[ἐ]τ̣[είμησεν]
2[Χ]αιρέαν
3τὸν στε-
4φανηφό-
5ρον.
0?·· ? ··]
1[·]·[·······]
2[·]ΑΙΡΕΑΝ
3ΤΟΝΣΤΕ
4ΦΑΝΗΦΟ
5ΡΟΝ
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="iaph2005-gap01" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
είμησεν
</supplied>
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Χ
</supplied>
αιρέαν
<lb n="3" />
τὸν
στε
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
φανηφό
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ρον
.
</ab>

Apparatus

Cormack saw the trace of an upright in l. 1, and so read [ἐ]τ[είμησεν]; but this might be a trace left by the moulding.

Translation:

[·· ? ·· ?honoured] Chaireas the stephanephoros.

Commentary:

There may have been a verb of honouring on an upper feature; but the two texts, 12.602 and 11.409 (= MAMA 466, 467), both very similar, may perhaps be complete.

Photographs:

Front view (1973)
 Front view (1973)
Face (1975)
 Face (1975)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook III, 44
 Kubitschek notebook III, 44
Reichel notebook I, 16v
 Reichel notebook I, 16v

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