Description:
Fragment from the left side of a white marble statue base without moulding (W. 0.20 × H. 0.50 × D. 0.20); surface is lost at the left.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.03.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
By Sherard: Walls, West, near 12.927 (=CIG 2761) etc., 12.932 (=CIG 2802) (Sherard); fragment, by the NYU expedition at Tetrapylon: 'near S.Tet. ?86 II'
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
The whole text copied by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 128). A fragment, lines 2-6, copied by Kubitschek (K.V.18) and found by the NYU expedition in 1988.
Bibliography:
Full text published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2800, whence Oikonomos, ArchDelt 7, 1921-1922, 293 and 296, no. 6; by Reynolds, from Sherard, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 56, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 257; fragment unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); Publications, Sherard papers; This edition Reynolds (1982).
0·· ? ··]
1 κατὰ τὰ ψηφι-
2σθέντα ἐτεί-
3μησεν Μᾶρ(κον) Αὐρ(ήλιον)
4 Γαιτυλικὸν
5 ἀπελεύθερον
6 καὶ πίτροπον
7 τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ
8πρῶ̣τονεοποι-
9ὸν τῆς θεοῦ
10Ἀφροδείτης
0·· ? ··]
1ΚΑΤΑΤΑΨΗΦΙ
2ΣΘΕΝΤΑΕΤΕΙ
3ΜΗΣΕΝΜΑΡΑΥΡ
4ΓΑΙΤΥΛΙΚΟΝ
5ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΝ
6ΚΑΙΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΟΝ
7ΤΟΥΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
8ΠΡ·ΤΟΝΕΟΠΟΙ
9ΟΝΤΗΣΘΕΟΥ
10ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ
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<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
κατὰ
τὰ
ψηφι
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
σθ
έν
τα
ἐτεί
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
μη
σεν
<expan>
<abbr>
Μᾶρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
κον
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ήλιον
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Γαιτ
υλικὸν
<lb n="5" />
ἀπε
λεύθερον
<lb n="6" />
κ
αὶ
πίτροπον
<lb n="7" />
τοῦ
Σεβαστοῦ
<lb n="8" />
πρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
τονεοποι
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ὸν
τῆς
θεοῦ
<lb n="10" />
Ἀφροδείτης
</ab>

Apparatus

ll. 2-3 The layout of the fragment suggests that Sherard may have recorded the line-break incorrectly; the alternative is to assume that there were virtually identical texts. l.3, ΣΑΝ Sherard; l. 8, ΠΡΟΤΟΝΕΟΠΟΙ Sherard; πρ[ῶ]το[ν] νε[ω]ποι Boeckh

Translation:

. . . and, according to what was decreed, honoured Marus Aurelius Gaitulikos, freedman and procurator of Augustus, chief temple commissioner of the goddess Aphrodite.

Commentary:

See bibliography.

Photographs:

Fragment, lines 2-6 (1988)
 Fragment, lines 2-6 (1988)
Fragment (1988)
 Fragment (1988)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook V, page 18 (1893)
 Kubitschek notebook V, page 18 (1893)

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