12.643. Honours for a son of Gallienus

Description:
Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, without moulding (together H. 0.46 × W. 1.08 × D. 0.42). The upper left corner survives as a separate fragment.
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters:
0.025; ligature, ΤΗ l. 3.
Date:
A.D. 256-260 (content).
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): reused in the excavated area.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Fragment a in Museum, b (the main block) at findspot (1980).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1976 (a, 76.54; b, unnumbered).
Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché (1981), 2, whence SEG 1981.907, An.Ép. 1981.766; republished by Roueché in Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 3, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 212.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
0·· ? ··]
1τὸν ἐπ[ι]φα[νέστα]-
2τoν Καίσα[ρα]
2a       vacat
3ἡ λαμπροτάτη Ἀ-
4φροδεισιέων πό-
5 scroll λις scroll
0·· ? ··]
1ΤΟΝΕΠ[·]ΦΑ[·····]
2ΤOΝΚΑΙΣΑ[··]
2a       vacat
3ΗΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΑ
4ΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝΠΟ
5 scroll ΛΙΣ scroll
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
τὸν
ἐπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ι
</supplied>
φα
<supplied reason="lost" >
νέστα
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
τoν
Καίσα
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρα
</supplied>
<lb n="2a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="3" />
ἡ
λαμπροτά
τη
Ἀ
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
φροδεισιέων
πό
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<g type="scroll" />
λις
<g type="scroll" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] the most renowned Caesar; the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (put up his statue).

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 I.10.

Photographs:

Upper left corner fragment, a (1976)
 Upper left corner fragment, a (1976)
Main block, b (1978)
 Main block, b (1978)
Main block, b (1980)
 Main block, b (1980)
Main block, b, detail (1980)
 Main block, b, detail (1980)

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