<rs type="textType">Building inscription</rs> by Aphrodite

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

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Description of Text

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Letters

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Date

Second century A.D. (lettering?)

Edition Ἡ Ἀφροδείτη ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων προσόδων τὰς ἀνδριαντοθήκας κατεσκεύασεν καὶ τὰς πυλίδας σὺν τοῖς ἐπιφερομένοις μετέθηκεν καὶ ἀνεστησεν καὶ ἐλευκούργησεν ἐπιμεληθέντων Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος Μενάνδρου Ἀπολλωνίου γ Πηλέως Εὐγενέτορος τοῦ Ἀττάλου Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ πιτταΠελοπίδου τοῦ Εὔνου νεοποιῶν
Text Constituted From

Sherard's notebook; publications.

Apparatus

The copy was compressed in a corner of the page: as a result, Boeckh printed l. 5 as two lines.

There is a dash after l. 5, probably indicating a gap.

l.7, ΕΥΓΕΝ Sherard, ΕΓΓΕΝ Boeckh.

l.10, νεωποιῶν Boeckh.

Translation

Aphrodite from her own income prepared the statue bases and changed, set up and faced with marble the little gates with their lintels; the supervisors, neopoioi, were Zenon the son of Zenon son of Menandros, Apollonios son of Peleus son of Peleus son of Peleus, Eugenetor the son of Attalos, Herakleides the son of Pittas, Pelopides the son of Eunous.

Commentary

The inscription seen by Fellows (60 and 61, p. 357) which Boeckh (CIG II, 1109) related to this inscription was in fact that published as 12.803 (=LBW 1611), column B.

The divisions in the list of names, all in the genitive, are far from clear; perhaps the first neopoios is Zenon Menandros son of Zenon, and the second Apollonios Peleus son of Apollonios son of Apollonios. We are grateful to Dr Fabienne Marchand, of LGPN, for the suggestion; but the name at the end of line 8 remains obscure.

Locations

reused in the Walls, west, in a stretch where the wall was about 30 feet high: 'muro occidentali 30 circiter pedes alto. ye wall seems here entire. To ye right are several illegible in ye wall' (Sherard) near 12.1018 (=CIG 2783); Unknown Findspot

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (BM Add 10102, 45 and, from Tisser, 63), whence Sherard, BM Add. 10101, f.12. Not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published, from Sherard by Boeckh, CIG 2749, ?whence Texier, pp. 161-2, Oikonomos, A.D. 7, 1921-1922, 292, no. 1, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 121.

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