Description:
White marble building block (H. 0.34 × W. 0.47 × D. 0.34) without moulding, but with a recessed edge on all sides.
Text:
The inscription is cut on the face, some way down the stone, and runs into the frame on both sides.
Letters:
0.02-0.025
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
incorporated in the Walls, South-east Gate
Original Location:
On the tomb from which it was found fallen
Last recorded location:
Museum (1978)
History of discovery:
Found during the clearing of the East Gate in 1904 and recorded by Gaudin (108), 'la face engagée dans la maçonnerie'; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin's squeeze by •Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 135, no 66; from the MAMA records by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 462, whence Robert, BCH 107, 1983, 505-506, and McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 510; by published by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, Appendix B.5., cited SEG 49 1999.1417.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin/Reinach papers; publications. This edition Reynolds (1999).
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1ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ-
2μος ἐτείμησεν
3Μιθραδάτην Ἀθη-
4ναγόρου ἄνδρα
5καλὸν καὶ ἀγα-
6θὸν καὶ πάσῃ κοσ-
7μηθέντα ἀρετῇ
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1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗ
2ΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΕΝ
3ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΗΝΑΘΗ
4ΝΑΓΟΡΟΥΑΝΔΡΑ
5ΚΑΛΟΝΚΑΙΑΓΑ
6ΘΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΣΗΚΟΣ
7ΜΗΘΕΝΤΑΑΡΕΤΗ
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Translation:

The council and the people honoured Mithradates son of Athenagoras, a fine and good man, and adorned with all virtue.

Commentary:

This text was one of a group cut on the family tomb whose elements were incorporated into the walls at the south east gate of the city: 12.410 (= MAMA 462), 13.302 (=474, 475, 476) and 12.409 (Walls 151) The group is published and discussed by Reynolds 1999.

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Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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