i: <rs type="textType" reg="building inscription">Building dedication</rs> to Aphrodite and emperors by T.Cl. Zelos. ii: <rs type="textType" cert="low">Verse</rs> <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Androkles, a <rs type="textType" reg="building inscription">benefactor</rs>

Joyce M. Reynolds 1991

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Originally published in Reynolds (1991) and Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Eleven white marble cornice blocks which form the front of the present stage.

Description of Text

i: Inscribed along the upper fascia of the blocks, running in a single line from a point c. 1 m. to the right of the north end of the stage, to the south end.

ii: Below i is a protruding moulding, and below that two fasciae, on the upper of which (0.07 high) this text is cut. The letters are very lightly cut, with red paint still to be seen in some of them. Those that survive are below the centre of the stage, on the fifth, sixth and seventh blocks from the north end; since all the blocks are in place, it seems likely that the rest of the text, including the gaps in this fragment, was painted, and either not incised at all, or cut so shallowly that it can no longer be detected.

Letters

i: 0.07; unusually shallow; leaf for stop.

ii: 0.055-0.06; very simple.

Date

i:A.D. 139-161 (reign). ii: Fourth century (lettering).

Edition
Θεᾶι Ἀφροδείτηι καὶ Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Τίτῳ Αἰλίῳ Ἁδριανῷ Ἀντωνείνῳ Σεβαστῷ Εὐσεβεῖ καὶ Μάρκῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Οὐήρῳ Καίσαρι καὶ τῷ σύμπαντι οἴκῳ τῶν Σεβαστῶν καὶ τῇ γλυκυτάτῃ πατρίδι Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Ζῆλος ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ ἱερεὺς διὰ βίου θεᾶς Ἀφροδείτης τοὺς κείονας καὶ τὸν κατ' αὐτῶν κόσμον καὶ τὴν σκούτλωσιν τοῦ τοίχου καὶ τοῦ ἐδάφους ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων κατεσσκεύασεν καὶ ἀνέθηκεν
εὐεργεσίης Ἀνδροκλέους νει
Translation

i: For the goddess Aphrodite, for Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Verus Caesar and the whole household of the Augusti and his very dear country, Ti(berius) Cl(audius) Zelos, high priest and priest for life of the goddess Aphrodite, prepared and put up the columns and the entablature above them and the veneering of the wall and of the floor at his own expense.

ii: benefaction of Androkles EI

Commentary

i. See bibliography.

ii: See discussion at III.40.

Locations

Findspot Theatre: in situ on the front of the stage Findspot (2001)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1967 (67.536)

Bibliography

i: Published by MacDonald, Greek and Roman Coins from Aphrodisias, p. 20, no. 1, whence BE 1977.459 (l. 1), SEG 1976.1220, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 115, C. P. Jones, HSCP 85 (1981) ; by Reynolds, Aph.Papers 2, 15-28, no. B.1.

ii: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 34, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 715, Steinepigramme 02/09/94.

Photographs

i. Left part (1973)
i. Centre part (1973)
i. Right part (1973)
ii. Left end (1978)
Theatre stage view (1973)
Theatre centre stage view (1973)