12.102. Fragment from a letter
- Description:
- Fragment of a ?statue base
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.07
- Date:
- No description
- Findspot:
- Walls, North-east: 'Porte nord, exterieurement'. Outside the North East gate, with the fragments of 12.105 (=CIG 2786).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1893)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (93.1); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 100, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 370 .
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; Gaudin This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]α τὰ δέοντα δι' ἅπερ ἐστὶ Μ[·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ··]· ταῖς πόλεσιν οὐ μόνον Ο[·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ·· ἀλ]λὰ καὶ πολυωφελεῖς π[·· ? ··]
- 5[·· ? ··] τ̣ὸν μεγαλοφυέ[στατον ·· ? ··]
- 6[·· ? ··] πρὸς δὲ τὴ[ν πόλιν ·· ? ··]
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2[ - - - ]ΑΤΑΔΕΟΝΤΑΔΙ'ΑΠΕΡΕΣΤΙΜ[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ]·ΤΑΙΣΠΟΛΕΣΙΝΟΥΜΟΝΟΝΟ[ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ··]ΛΑΚΑΙΠΟΛΥΩΦΕΛΕΙΣΠ[ - - - ]
- 5[ - - - ]·ΟΝΜΕΓΑΛΟΦΥΕ[······ - - - ]
- 6[ - - - ]ΠΡΟΣΔΕΤΗ[······ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
α
τὰ
δέοντα
δι'
ἅπερ
ἐστὶ
Μ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
ταῖς
πόλεσιν
οὐ
μόνον
Ο
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀλ
</supplied>
λὰ
καὶ
πολυωφελεῖς
π
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
μεγαλοφυέ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
στατον
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
πρὸς
δὲ
τὴ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
πόλιν
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
] [...] the necessary things through which [...] to the cities not only [...] but also very beneficial [...] the Most Eminent [...] and to the [?city] [...]
Commentary:
The phrasing suggests a letter from a ruler or an official.
- Photographs:
- none.
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