12.914. Building inscription by Aphrodite
- Description:
- None
- Text:
- None
- Letters:
- No measurements
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering?)
- Findspot:
- reused in the Walls, west, in a stretch where the wall was about 30 feet high: 'muro occidentali 30 circiter pedes alto. ye wall seems here entire. To ye right are several illegible in ye wall' (Sherard) near 12.1018 (=CIG 2783)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Copied in 1705 by Picenini (BM Add 10102, 45 and, from Tisser, 63), whence Sherard, BM Add. 10101, f.12. Not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published, from Sherard by Boeckh, CIG 2749, ?whence Texier, pp. 161-2, Oikonomos, A.D. 7, 1921-1922, 292, no. 1, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 121.
- Text constituted from:
- Sherard's notebook; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Ἡ Ἀφροδείτη ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων προσόδων
- 2 τὰς ἀνδριαντοθήκας κατεσκεύα-
- 3σεν καὶ τὰς πυλίδας σὺν τοῖς ἐπι-
- 4φερομένοις μετέθηκεν καὶ ἀνεστη-
- 5σεν καὶ ἐλευκούργησεν ἐπιμεληθέντων
- 6Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος Μενάνδρου
- 7Ἀπολλωνίου γ´ Πηλέως Εὐγενέτορος
- 8 τοῦ Ἀττάλου Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ ΠΙΤΤΑ
- 9Πελοπίδου τοῦ Εὔνου
- 10 v. νεοποιῶν
- 1ΗΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΠΡΟΣΟΔΩΝ
- 2ΤΑΣΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΘΗΚΑΣΚΑΤΕΣΚΕΥΑ
- 3ΣΕΝΚΑΙΤΑΣΠΥΛΙΔΑΣΣΥΝΤΟΙΣΕΠΙ
- 4ΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΙΣΜΕΤΕΘΗΚΕΝΚΑΙΑΝΕΣΤΗ
- 5ΣΕΝΚΑΙΕΛΕΥΚΟΥΡΓΗΣΕΝΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ
- 6ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ
- 7ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΓΠΗΛΕΩΣΕΥΓΕΝΕΤΟΡΟΣ
- 8ΤΟΥΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΠΙΤΤΑ
- 9ΠΕΛΟΠΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΕΥΝΟΥ
- 10 ΝΕΟΠΟΙΩΝ
Apparatus
The copy was compressed in a corner of the page: as a result, Boeckh printed l. 5 as two lines.
There is a dash after l. 5, probably indicating a gap.
l.7, ΕΥΓΕΝ Sherard, ΕΓΓΕΝ Boeckh.
l.10, νε[ω]ποιῶν Boeckh.
Translation:
Aphrodite from her own income prepared the statue bases and changed, set up and faced with marble the little gates with their ?lintels; the supervisors, neopoioi, were Zenon the son of Zenon son of Menandros, Apollonios son of Peleus son of Peleus son of Peleus, Eugenetor the son of Attalos, Herakleides the son of ?Pittas, Pelopides the son of Eunous.
Commentary:
The inscription seen by Fellows (60 and 61, p. 357) which Boeckh (CIG II, 1109) related to this inscription was in fact that published as 12.803 (=LBW 1611), column B.
The divisions in the list of names, all in the genitive, are far from clear; perhaps the first neopoios is Zenon Menandros son of Zenon, and the second Apollonios Peleus son of Apollonios son of Apollonios. We are grateful to Dr Fabienne Marchand, of LGPN, for the suggestion; but the name at the end of line 8 remains obscure.
- Photographs:
- none.
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