Description:
White marble statue base without moulding (W. 0.43 × H. 1.10 × D. 0.40)
Text:
Inscribed on the face, whose edges are slightly recessed.
Letters:
0.015-0.0175; l. 6, 0.025-0.0375
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, East (north part): reused in a bastion, east of the north-east gate, north of 12.211 (=MAMA 538).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1975)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by K&R (not in notebooks); by Gaudin (63); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Paris & Holleaux, 8; cited by Reinach, from Gaudin, 22; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 448, whence Hellenica 13, 118, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 149.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ θεοῖς
2Σεβαστοῖς καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ
3Ἀρτεμίδωρος Διονυσί-
4ου φύσει δὲ Ἀρτεμιδώ-
5ρου τοῦ Διογένους
6 vv. Πηδισας vv.
7ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκε
8τὸν Ἑρμῆ καὶ τὴν ἐπίχρυ-
9σον Ἀφροδείτην καὶ τοὺς
10παρ' ἑκάτερα Ἔρωτας λαμ-
11παδηφόρους καὶ τὸν πρὸ
12 αὐτοῦ Ἔρωτα μαρμάρινον
13 καθὼς ὑπέσχετο καὶ αὐτὸς
14κατασκευαζομένου τοῦ
15 φοινεικοῦντος ἐν τῷ τῆς
16στρατηγίας αὐτοῦ χρόν[ῳ]
1ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΚΑΙΘΕΟΙΣ
2ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩ
3ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΣΔΙΟΝΥΣΙ
4ΟΥΦΥΣΕΙΔΕΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩ
5ΡΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
6  ΠΗΔΙΣΑΣ  
7ΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ
8ΤΟΝΕΡΜΗΚΑΙΤΗΝΕΠΙΧΡΥ
9ΣΟΝΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΝΚΑΙΤΟΥΣ
10ΠΑΡ'ΕΚΑΤΕΡΑΕΡΩΤΑΣΛΑΜ
11ΠΑΔΗΦΟΡΟΥΣΚΑΙΤΟΝΠΡΟ
12ΑΥΤΟΥΕΡΩΤΑΜΑΡΜΑΡΙΝΟΝ
13ΚΑΘΩΣΥΠΕΣΧΕΤΟΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΣ
14ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΥΤΟΥ
15ΦΟΙΝΕΙΚΟΥΝΤΟΣΕΝΤΩΤΗΣ
16ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΑΣΑΥΤΟΥΧΡΟΝ[·]
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Ἀφροδείτῃ
καὶ
θεοῖς
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Σεβαστοῖς
καὶ
τῷ
Δήμῳ
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Ἀρτεμίδωρος
Διονυσί
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ου
φύσει
δὲ
Ἀρτεμιδώ
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ρου
τοῦ
Διογένους
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Πηδισας
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ἐκ
τῶν
ἰδίων
ἀνέθηκε
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τὸν
Ἑρμῆ
καὶ
τὴν
ἐπίχρυ
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σον
Ἀφροδείτην
καὶ
τοὺς
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παρ'
ἑκάτερα
Ἔρωτας
λαμ
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παδηφόρους
καὶ
τὸν
πρὸ
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αὐτοῦ
Ἔρωτα
μαρμάρινον
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καθὼς
ὑπέσχετο
καὶ
αὐτὸς
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κατασκευαζομένου
τοῦ
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φοινεικοῦντος
ἐν
τῷ
τῆς
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στρατηγίας
αὐτοῦ
χρόν
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Translation:

For Aphrodite and for the gods the Augusti and for the People, Artemidoros Pedisas son of Dionysios, by birth of Artemidoros the son of Diogenes. at his own expense set up the Hermes, and the gilded Aphrodite, and the Erotes carrying torches on either side, and the marble Eros in front of it, as he also promised when the ?palm grove was being constructed in the period of his tenure of the office of strategos.

Commentary:

For a another dedication of Erotes, cf 15.202.

Photographs:
none.

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