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Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Two adjoining white marble blocks from a composite monument, complete above and below, but damaged at edges (0.195 x 0.81 x 0.34).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on the upper blocks of the monument from which these blocks came.

Letters

First century A.D.; ll. 1-4, 0.025, omicron 0.018; l.5, 0.015.

Date

First century A.D. (lettering).

Edition στεφανηφορήσαντα δίς καὶ ἀγωνοθετήσαντα δὶς τοὺς τῶν Σεβαστῶν ἀγῶνας καὶ ἑστιάσαντα τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τὸν δῆμον καὶ τὴν γερουσίαν ἐγδεύτερον καὶ ἀγορα νομήσαντα πολυδαπάνως τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν τῆς τείμης ἐ ποιήσατο Ἱέραξ κατὰ τὴν Παπύλου διαθήκην
Translation

[e.g. The Council, the People, and the Gerousia honoured ?Papulos] who was twice stephanephorus, and contest-president of the contests of the Augusti, and feasted the [Council and the ] People, and the Gerousia a second time [ and ?who was agoranomos] lavishly. The setting up [?of the statue was undertaken] by Hierax, according to the testament of Papulos.

Commentary

The only evidence for dating this inscription, within the imperial period, is provided by the script, which suggests a date in the first century A.D. The text presumably recorded honours for Papulos, now deceased; the principal honour - a statue - was paid for from his own bequest, and this text was very probably inscribed beneath it. The name is attested several times at Aphrodisias; in particular, a Papulos son of Jason son of Kastor is honoured by Gerousia, Council and People in another inscription which is similar in design and script, 11.6 (=MAMA VIII.488). Hierax might be a son or a more distant connection.

The restoration at the end of l.3 is not certain, but echoes the phrasing in the following text (49.7-8); conversely, l.2 supports Reinach's restoration in 49 ll. 3-4.

Locations

One fragment in City, Village: New Museum excavations; one fragment Stray. Unknown Museum (1980)

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 and 1979 (79.25)

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 48.

Photographs

Left fragment (1978)
Together (1980)
Together (1980)