12.30. Posthumous honours for Aelius Claudius . . .
- 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"
>
ἡ
βουλὴ
καὶ
ὁ
δῆμος
</supplied>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
ἡ
γε
</supplied>
ρουσία
ἐτ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ε
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ί
</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"
>
</expan>
αύδιον
</supplied>
<g
type="stop"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀ
</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"
>
ἐ
</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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