Description:
A white marble statue base; no measurements..
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.035; ligatured ΗΜ in l.9; deliberate erasure in l.11.
Date:
A.D. 222/235 (reign)
Findspot:
Walls, North, found with 12.34
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1904)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (161); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 84, no. 4, whence Abbott & Johnson, no. 138, Veyne, Mél. Piganiol 1395-1396, BE 1967.554; by Reynolds, from Gaudin, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 47, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 327 .
Text constituted from:
Transcription from squeeze (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 ὁ δῆμος
2 τῆς λαμπροτάτης
3 Ἀφροδεισιέων
4 πόλεως Σουλπίκιον
5 Πρεῖσκον τὸν δια-
6σημότατον ἀνθύ-
7πατον κατὰ τὰς τοῦ
8 μεγίστου καὶ θειο-
9τάτου κυρίου ἡμῶν
10 αὐτοκράτορος Σεου-
11[ή]ρου Ἀλεξάνδρου
12[?ἐντολάς]
1ΟΔΗΜΟΣ
2ΤΗΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣ
3ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝ
4ΠΟΛΕΩΣΣΟΥΛΠΙΚΙΟΝ
5ΠΡΕΙΣΚΟΝΤΟΝΔΙΑ
6ΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΟΝΑΝΘΥ
7ΠΑΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΤΑΣΤΟΥ
8ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΘΕΙΟ
9ΤΑΤΟΥΚΥΡΙΟΥΗΜΩΝ
10ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣΣΕΟΥ
11[·]ΡΟΥΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
12[·······]
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<lb n="1" />
δῆμος
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τῆς
λαμπροτάτης
<lb n="3" />
Ἀφροδεισιέων
<lb n="4" />
πόλεως
Σουλπίκιον
<lb n="5" />
Πρεῖσκον
τὸν
δια
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
σημότατον
ἀνθύ
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
πατον
κατὰ
τὰς
τοῦ
<lb n="8" />
μεγίστου
καὶ
θειο
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
τάτου
κυρίου
ἡμῶν
<lb n="10" />
αὐτοκράτορος
Σεου
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ρου
Ἀλεξάνδρου
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<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἐντολάς
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (set up a statue of) Sulpicius Priscus, perfectissimus vir, proconsul, according to [?the instructions] of our greatest and most revered lord Imperator Severus [Alexander].

Commentary:

See Reynolds, loc. cit.

Photographs:
none.

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