12.409. Funerary inscription for Flavia Apphia
- Description:
- Plain white marble block, cut away at the top and at the left side; the right end is covered by a block of the city wall at right angles to this short stretch. There is a clamphole with a channel leading up to the lower edge in the left corner sector. (W. 0.46 × H. 0.63 × depth not measurable)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the visible face.
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.03; slightly elaborated β.
- Date:
- First to second century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east Gate: reused in a west-facing stretch of wall at a right angle to the west end of the façade of the tomb
- Original Location:
- In the monumental tomb at the East Gate
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition (Walls 151).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334, B.4, whence SEG 49 1999.1420 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· c. 5 ··]· Ε̣ [·] vac.
- 2[Φ]λ(αβία) stop Ἀπφία stop γυνὴ stop Φλ(αβίου) stop Μ[ι]-
- 3θριδάτου Ἀ stop γαθοῦ v.
- 4 θυγατὴρ stop Μηνοδό
- 5του Βραβέως leaf flower leaf
- 6a vacat
- 1[·····]··[·]
- 2[·]Λ stop ΑΠΦΙΑ stop ΓΥΝΗ stop ΦΛ stop Μ[·]
- 3ΘΡΙΔΑΤΟΥΑ stop ΓΑΘΟΥ
- 4ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ stop ΜΗΝΟΔΟ
- 5ΤΟΥΒΡΑΒΕΩΣ leaf flower leaf
- 6a vacat
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ε
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<space
extent="5"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Φ
</supplied>
λ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αβία
</supplied>
<g
type="stop"
/>
Ἀπφία
<g
type="stop"
/>
γυνὴ
<g
type="stop"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αβίου
</supplied>
<g
type="stop"
/>
Μ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ι
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
θριδάτου
Ἀ
<g
type="stop"
/>
γαθοῦ
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
θυγατὴρ
<g
type="stop"
/>
Μηνοδό
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
του
Βραβέως
<g
type="leaf"
/>
<g
type="flower"
/>
<g
type="leaf"
/>
<lb
n="6a"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 5, The two marks given as 'leaf', may just be elaborate stops.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Flavia Apphia wife of Flavius Mithradates son of Agathos, daughter of Menodotos son of Brabeus
Commentary:
This text was one of a group cut on a family tomb, elements of which were incorporated into the walls at the South-East Gate of the city: 12.410 (=MAMA 462), 13.302 (= MAMA 474, 475, 476), and this text. The group is published and discussed by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334.
Photographs:
- Face
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