Description:
Fragment from the ?upper right corner of a white marble base (W. 0.28 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.30).
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the text may have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters:
0.02-0.025; dots for stops; stops for abbreviation; ΗΜ in ligature, l. 4; from l. 4 letters get smaller and rather more closely squeezed together.
Date:
Later second/early third century A.D. (lettering and nomen)
Findspot:
Walls, North: 'by the north wall of the Stadium' (MAMA)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1934)
History of discovery:
Recorded by K&R (KIII.9, Abklatsch 87); by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by •Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 494, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 413.
Text constituted from:
Publication; notebook; MAMA squeeze (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0[?ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος]
1[καὶ ἡ γε]ρουσία ἐτε̣[ί]-
2[μησεν] καὶ μετηλ - v.
3[λακχότ]α̣ stop Αἴλιον stop Κλ(αύδιον) stop
4[·· c. 6 ·· Ἀ]γ̣̣αθημέρου
5[υἱὸν ·· c. 18 ··] · ζήσαντα
6[?κοσμίως καὶ ἐ]ν̣αρέτως
7[·· c. 14 ··] · ΥΠΟΤΕ
8[·· c. 18 ··]ΠΙ v.
8a[·· ? ··
0[···················]
1[········]ΡΟΥΣΙΑΕΤ·[·]
2[·····]ΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ 
3[······]· stop ΑΙΛΙΟΝ stop ΚΛ stop
4[·······]·̣ΑΘΗΜΕΡΟΥ
5[···· ··················]·ΖΗΣΑΝΤΑ
6[············]·ΑΡΕΤΩΣ
7[··············]·ΥΠΟΤΕ
8[··················]ΠΙ 
8a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
βουλὴ
καὶ
δῆμος
</supplied>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
γε
</supplied>
ρουσία
ἐτ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
μησεν
</supplied>
καὶ
μετηλ
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
λακχότ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
<g type="stop" />
Αἴλιον
<g type="stop" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αύδιον
</supplied>
</expan>
<g type="stop" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
̣αθ
ημ
έρου
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
υἱὸν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="18" unit="character" dim="left" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
ζήσαντα
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
κοσμίως
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
αρέτως
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="14" unit="character" dim="left" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
υποτε
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="18" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
πι
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="8a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 6, supplement suggested by L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 230; καλῶς Cormack

Translation:

[?The Council and the People and the ge]rousia honoured, even after his death, Aelius Cl(audius) [·· ? ··] son of Agathemeros [·· ? ··] who lived [in a decent and] virtuous manner [·· ? ··

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
none.

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