Description:
Fragment from the left side of a white marble statue base (H. H. 0.74, W. W. 0.58, D. D. 0.27) with moulding surviving to left.
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters:
0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, West: lying on the West Wall some way south of the West Gate, near 12.902 (=MAMA 431).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1976)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Reichel (unpublished R I, 7, and squeeze 45); recorded by Gaudin (38b); recorded in 1934 (so Cormack, Notes p.36) but not published in MAMA; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published, from Gaudin, by Reinach, 107, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 488 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication; Gaudin. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ΙΑ ̣[·· c. 13 ··]
2 καὶ μ[εγίσταις καὶ]
3πρεπ[ούσαις τειμαῖς]
4Ὑψίκλ[?ειαν ·· c. 6 ··]
5 τοῦ Ν[?εικοτείμου
6 Ἀπφία[ν ζήσασαν ?κοσ]-
7μίως κ[?αὶ ·· c. 4 ··]
8 καὶ πρὸ[ς ὑπόδει]-
9 scroll γμ[α ἀρετῆς]
1ΙΑ[·············]
2ΚΑΙΜ[···········]
3ΠΡΕΠ[·············]
4ΥΨΙΚΛ[···· ······]
5ΤΟΥΝ[··········
6ΑΠΦΙΑ[···········]
7ΜΙΩΣΚ[·· ····]
8ΚΑΙΠΡΟ[·······]
9 scroll ΓΜ[·······]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ια
</orig>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
καὶ
μ
<supplied reason="lost" >
εγίσταις
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
πρεπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ούσαις
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τειμαῖς
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
Ὑψίκλ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ειαν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
τοῦ
Ν
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
εικοτείμου
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
Ἀπφία
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ζήσασαν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
κοσ
</supplied>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
μίως
κ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
αὶ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<lb n="8" />
καὶ
πρὸ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ὑπόδει
</supplied>
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
<g type="scroll" />
γμ
<supplied reason="lost" >
α
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀρετῆς
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

References to fitting [honours]; to Hypsikl[eia] Apphia who had lived in a seemly manner.

Commentary:

The name of her ?father, grandfather or husband starts with N[ . . .

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

Representations:

Reichel, notebook I, 7
 Reichel, notebook I, 7
Gaudin squeeze 38
 Gaudin squeeze 38

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