<rs type="textType" reg="posthumous honours"><rs type="textType">Honours</rs>, perhaps <rs type="textType">funerary</rs>, </rs> for <gap reason="lost"/> Julianos and Flavia Apphia Iuliane

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block or statue base (0.44 × 0.67 × 0.44) with drafted edges on the left and right sides. The stone is chipped above and to the right, but complete above.

Description of Text

The inscription impinges on the right edge. The text must have begun on an upper feature.

Description of Letters

0.0225-0.25; phi 0.36

Date

First to second A.D. lettering

Edition υἱὸν Ἰουλιανὸν ἥρωα καὶ Φλαβίαν Σέξστου Φλαβίου Ἰουλιανοῦ Διογένους θυγατέρα Ἀπφίαν Ἰουλιανὴν ἡρω ίδα τὰς δὲ τειμὰς ἀνέθεσαν Σέξστος Φλάβιος Σέξστου Φλαβίου υἱὸς Ἰουλιανὸς Διογένης καὶ Φλαβία Τίτου Φλαβίου Γαληνοῦ θυγάτηρ Ἀπφία οἱ γονεῖς αὐτῶν
Translation

[ ? Public bodies honoured . . . ?Iulia]nos son [ of ?], hero, and Flavia Apphia Iuliane, herois, daughter of Sextus Flavius Julianus Diogenes: their honours (?statues) Sextus Flavius Iulianos Diogenes, son of Sex(tus) Fl(avius) and Flavia Apphia, daughter of Ti(tus) Fl(avius) Galenos, their parents, set up.

Commentary

This block might have been part of a statue base; but it may have formed part of the decoration of a monumental tomb; compare the similar presentation of the inscriptions from the tomb whose elements are built into the South-east Gate, 13.302 etc. (=MAMA 8, no. 474, 475, 476 etc.)

Locations

Necropolis, South: in front of the South wall (Kubitschek) Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (V.5, Abklatsch 111); by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 510 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 489

Representations

Kubitschek notebook V, 5