Description:
'A pedestal' (Fellows); presumably a statue base shaft, probably broken below.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
No description
Date:
Third century A.D. (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): near the South-east gate
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1850)
History of discovery:
Transcribed by Sherard in 1716 (BM.Add. 10101. f.120); by Fellows in 1840 and by Waddington in 1850. Not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2797; by Fellows, no. 29; from both of these by Bailie, no. 57; published by Waddington, LBW 1598, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 294 .
Text constituted from:
Sherard papers; publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Ἡ πατρὶς
2 Τιβέριον Κλ(αύδιον)
3 Αὐρήλιον
4 Τιβερίου
5 Κλαυδίου
6Καπιτωλεί-
7νου ὑὸν
8 Κτησίαν
9 τὸν ῥήτορα
9a [·· ? ··
1ΗΠΑΤΡΙΣ
2ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝΚΛ
3ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝ
4ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
5ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ
6ΚΑΠΙΤΩΛΕΙ
7ΝΟΥΥΟΝ
8ΚΤΗΣΙΑΝ
9ΤΟΝΡΗΤΟΡΑ
9a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
πατρὶς
<lb n="2" />
Τιβέριον
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αύδιον
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
Αὐρήλιον
<lb n="4" />
Τιβερίου
<lb n="5" />
Κλαυδίου
<lb n="6" />
Καπιτωλεί
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
νου
ὑὸν
<lb n="8" />
Κτησίαν
<lb n="9" />
τὸν
ῥήτορα
<lb n="9a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, ΚΛ Sherard; not reported by Fellows or Waddington

l. 6, ΩΛΙ Fellows

l. 9, ΡΗΤΟ Fellows

Waddington suggested καὶ σοφιστὴν for the tenth line, on a parallel with 14.18 (=LBW 1598bis); but 'rhetor' appears alone in 12.909 (=CIG 2845), and it is also possible that the text is complete.

Translation:

The homeland (set up a statue of) Tiberius Cl(audius) Aurelius Ktesias, son of Tiberius Claudius Kapitoleinos, the rhetor [...]

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

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