Description of Monument

Three joining fragments of a white marble statue base (together 0.51 × 1.38 × 0.47) with moulded panels on all four sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed within the front panel; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

0.02-0.0225. Ligatures: ΜΝ, l.8; ΝΗ, l. 9; ΜΕ, l.12; ΤΗΝ, l.13; ΤΗ, ll. 14, 18, 19; ΜΗ, ll. 21, 29; ΝΤ l. 25; in l. 14 final iota squeezed in.

Date

Second quarter third century A.D. (reign)

Edition λιανοῦ γυναῖκα Σεπτιμίου Χάρητος Αἰνείου ἀξιώματι καὶ γένει διενενκοῦσαν προγόνων ἀρχιερέων πολλῶν γυμνασιάρχων στεφα ν ηφόρων καὶ τῶ ν συνκτισάντων τὴ ν πόλιν καὶ πρ ώτων πιστευσα μένων δι α γένους τ ὴν ἱερωσ ύ νη ν τὴς θεοῦ Ἀφροδεί της ἀ πόγονον Φλαουίου Δι ογένο υς Ὑψήλου ἀρ χιερέω ς καὶ ἱερέως τῆς θεοῦ ἀρετῇ καὶ σεμνότητι καὶ φιλανδρίᾳ τὸ προγονικὸν ἐπικοσμήσασαν ἀξίωμα θυγατέρα πόλεως ἀνθηφόρον τῆς θεοῦ διὰ τὸ μεγαλεῖον τοῦ γένους καὶ τὴν ἀνυπέρβλητον τοῦ βίου σεμνότητα τειμηθεῖσαν ὑπὸ θεοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου ματρώνης στολῇ

Text Constituted From

Publications; Gaudin; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

Apparatus

The inscription broke, and was damaged, after Gaudin recorded it; letters highlighted were recorded by Gaudin, but not seen subsequently.

12-13: πιστευσαμένων διὰ γένους Reinach; MAMA reports reading πιστευσαμένων ἐκ γένους but the MAMA photograph shows πιστευσα[ . . . . . . . .] γένους, which is still what can be read.

It is not clear why the last word in the last line was erased, unless as part of the re-use of the stone.

Translation

daughter of –lianos, wife of Septimius Chares Aeneias, outstanding in worth and family, with many ancestors who were high priests, stephanephoroi and among those who joined in the foundation of the city and were the first to be entrusted with the priesthood of the goddess Aphrodite as a family, descendent of Flavius Diogenes Hypselos, high priest and priest of the goddess; by her virtue, distinction, and love for her husband she enhanced the reputation of her family, was daughter of the city and flower-bearer of the goddess; she was honoured on account of the greatness of her family and the unsurpassed distinction of her life by the god Alexander with a matron's stola.

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Temple/Church: re-used in the south side of the chancel-rail, ?second base from east. Unknown Findspot

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (91: 'inscription Bonnet') when the stone was still complete; recorded in 3 fragments by the MAMA expedition, by the NYU expedition (SBI 93).

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 147-149, no. 80; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 514, whence McCabe 342

Photographs

Upper fragment, lines 1-13 (1976)

Lower fragments, lines 13-31 (1976)