12.629. Funerary relief for anonymous, emporiarch
- Description:
- White marble relief stele of irregular shape (a rectangle without its lower left corner) chipped along all adges and sporadically over the face (W. 0.29 × H. 0.40 × D. 0.06). The upper part carries a male portrait bust in high relief, the head almost in the round as it rises above the upper edge of the stele. See further Smith. loc. cit.
- Text:
- Inscribed on either side of the head (ll. 1-5) and below the bust (ll. 6-7). The first two lines to the left of the head have been erased.
- Letters:
- 0.022, but heights vary; lunate sigma, omega.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (east part)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum, on display (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.22)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, 'The Linen-market of Aphrodisias in Caria' in Arculiana, H. Bögli Festschrift, 523-8; by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Relief 2
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1997).
- i
- (To left of head)
- 1 [[·· c. 4 ··]]
- 2 [[·· c. 4 ··]]
- 3ἐνπο-
- 4ριαρχης
- ii
- (To right of head)
- 1 τῇ συν-
- 2τεχνί-
- 3ᾳ τῶν λι-
- 4νουργῶ-
- 5 vv. ν
- 6(Below bust) καὶ τοῖς παρό-
- 7(sic) δοις χαιρει
- i
- (To left of head)
- 1 [[····]]
- 2 [[····]]
- 3ΕΝΠΟ
- 4ΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ
- ii
- (To right of head)
- 1ΤΗΣΥΝ
- 2ΤΕΧΝΙ
- 3ΑΤΩΝΛΙ
- 4ΝΟΥΡΓΩ
- 5 Ν
- 6(Below bust)ΚΑΙΤΟΙΣΠΑΡΟ
- 7(sic)ΔΟΙΣΧΑΙΡΕΙ
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<note>
To left of head
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/>
<del>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="4"
unit="character"
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</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
<gap
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extent="4"
unit="character"
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</del>
<lb
n="3"
/>
ἐνπο
<lb
n="4"
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/>
ριαρχης
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<div
type="textpart_column"
n="ii"
>
<note>
To right of head
</note>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
τῇ
συν
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
τεχνί
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ᾳ
τῶν
λι
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
νουργῶ
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ν
<lb
n="6"
/>
<note>
Below bust
</note>
καὶ
τοῖς
παρό
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
<note>
sic
</note>
δοις
χαιρει
</ab>
Translation:
[So-and-so ], market-supervisor, greets the association of linen-workers and the passers-by.
Commentary:
See discussion by Reynolds, art. cit.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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