Ampelios, father of the city, <rs type="textType" reg="building inscription">restores</rs> the 'palaestra'

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

White marble blocks making up the Odeon/Bouleuterion stage edge, which is 0.10 high. The rim was broken in several places: it has been largely restored, but four fragments are still loose.

Description of Text

Cut along the rim of the stage. The total length of the text is 7.65.

Description of Letters

0.06-0.07; scroll for abbreviation; well cut.

Date

Mid fifth century (lettering, titulature).

Edition ἐπὶ εὐτυχίᾳ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ἀφροδισιαίων μητροπόλεως καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον τῆς παλέστρας ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Φλαβίου Ἀμπελίου τοῦ ἐλλογιμωτάτου σχολαστικοῦ καὶ πατρός ἰνδικτιῶνι ι εὐτυχεστάτῃ
Apparatus

ἰνδικτίωνος ι, εὐτυχῶς ALA; ἰνδικτιῶνι ι εὐτυχεστάτῃ Feissel.

The letters on the loose fragments are highlighted in the text.

Translation For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the Aphrodisians, this work of the palaestra also took place under Flavius Ampelius the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the tenth indiction. With good fortune.
Commentary

See discussion at IV.21 following.

For Ampelios, see also 4.202, 12.101 and 8.609.

Locations

Found: Bouleuterion/Odeon: on the stage rim; .. Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Findspot; fragments in Museum (1977)..

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963.

Bibliography

Published by Erim, ILN 21 Dec. 1963, 1028; by Roueché (1979), 176, no. 2, whence BE 1980.473; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 43 and plate, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 620.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

View (1973)
Part (1973)
Part (1973)
Detail, 1 (1972)
Detail, 2 (1972)
Detail, 3 (1972)
Detail, 4 (1972)
Detail, 5 (1972)
Detail, 6 (1972)
Detail, 7 (1972)
Detail, 8 (1972)
Detail, 9 (1972)
Detail, 10 (1972)
Fragment (1977)