Description:
White marble block (H. 0.78 × W. 0.54 × D. 0.49) broken below.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025x0.275.
Date:
First century A.D.
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): southern stretch '50m avant le turbé', so probably about 40m east of 12.505 (=MAMA 439)
Original Location:
unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1934)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (KIII.62, Abklatsch 52); by Gaudin (137); by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin's squeeze and K&R byReinach, REG 19, 1906, 116-117, no. 38; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 478 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 237. Published by •Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, nos. C, 2
Text constituted from:
Gaudin's squeeze; K&R; publications. This edition Reynolds (1999).
1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτεί-
2μησεν ταῖς μεγίσταις καὶ
3 καλλίσταις τειμαῖς Ἀπ-
4φίαν Θεοδώρου τοῦ Ἀττί-
5νου Μελίτωνος ἀρχιέρει-
6αν διὰ βίου θεῶν Σεβαστῶν
7 καὶ ἱέρειαν Ἀρτέμιδος γυναῖ-
8κα δὲ Ἀπολλωνίου τ[οῦ Ἀθη]-
9[ν]αγόρου τοῦ Ε̣ὐ̣[μάχου] [·· ? ··]
10[·· ? ··] τ̣ὴν κα̣[ὶ ·· ? ··]
1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙ
2ΜΗΣΕΝΤΑΙΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣΚΑΙ
3ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΑΠ
4ΦΙΑΝΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΑΤΤΙ
5ΝΟΥΜΕΛΙΤΩΝΟΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ
6ΑΝΔΙΑΒΙΟΥΘΕΩΝΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝ
7ΚΑΙΙΕΡΕΙΑΝΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟΣΓΥΝΑΙ
8ΚΑΔΕΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΤ[·····]
9[·]ΑΓΟΡΟΥΤΟΥ··[·····][ - - - ]
10[ - - - ]·ΗΝΚ·[· - - - ]
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βουλὴ
καὶ
δῆμος
ἐτεί
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μησεν
ταῖς
μεγίσταις
καὶ
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καλλίσταις
τειμαῖς
Ἀπ
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φίαν
Θεοδώρου
τοῦ
Ἀττί
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νου
Μελίτωνος
ἀρχιέρει
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αν
διὰ
βίου
θεῶν
Σεβαστῶν
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καὶ
ἱέρειαν
Ἀρτέμιδος
γυναῖ
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κα
δὲ
Ἀπολλωνίου
τ
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οῦ
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Ἀθη
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<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
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αγόρου
τοῦ
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Εὐ
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μάχου
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<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
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ὴν
κ
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α
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<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
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</ab>

Translation:

The Council and the People honoured with the highest and finest honours Apphia daughter of Theodoros Meliton the son of Meliton, high priestess for life of the divine Augusti and priestess of Artemis, wife of Apollonios son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, ?who also [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Discussed by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', (see bibliography).

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook III, 62
 Kubitschek notebook III, 62
Gaudin squeeze 137
 Gaudin squeeze 137
Left edge: Gaudin squeeze
 Left edge: Gaudin squeeze

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