<rs type="textType">Building inscription</rs> by priest of Libertas

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble architrave block (2.81 × 0.34 visible × 0.50); inscribed on the face

Letters

0.11

Date

First century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἱερεὺς τῆς Ἐλευθερίας διὰ βίου
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

Translation

priest of Libertas for life

Commentary

The cult was probably initiated in or soon after 39 B.C., when the Romands gave the city eleutheria (8.27); there is a strong probability that the priest for life named here was C. Julius Zoilos. See most recently Reynolds, 'Ruler-cult' 43.

Locations

North Agora, in the portico south of the Bouleuterion/Odeon from the entablature of the north portico of the North Agora Findspot

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition (Odeon 12)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 39, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.388, AnnEpig 1984.878, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 82.

Photographs

Face (1994)