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Joyce M. Reynolds 1999

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Originally published in Reynolds (1999).

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Description of Monument

White marble block (0.78 × 0.54 × 0.49) broken below.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.025x0.275.

Date

First century A.D.

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν ταῖς μεγίσταις καὶ καλλίσταις τειμαῖς Ἀπφίαν Θεοδώρου τοῦ Ἀττίνου Μελίτωνος ἀρχιέρειαν διὰ βίου θεῶν Σεβαστῶν καὶ ἱέρειαν Ἀρτέμιδος γυναῖκα δὲ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Εὐμάχου τὴν καὶ
Text Constituted From

Gaudin's squeeze; K&R; publications.

Translation

The Council and the People honoured with the highest and finest honours Apphia daughter of Theodoros Meliton the son of Meliton, high priestess for life of the divine Augusti and priestess of Artemis, wife of Apollonios son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, who also

Commentary

Discussed by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', (see bibliography).

Locations

Walls, South (east part): southern stretch '50m avant le turbé', so probably about 40m east of 12.505 (=MAMA 439) unknown Findspot (1934)

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (KIII.62, Abklatsch 52); by Gaudin (137); by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin's squeeze and K&R byReinach, REG 19, 1906, 116-117, no. 38; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 478 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 237. Published by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, nos. C, 2

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 62
Gaudin squeeze 137
Left edge: Gaudin squeeze