Description of Monument

Perhaps a statue base shaft (0.48 × 1.16 × 0.10 (given by Anthopoulos)).

Description of Text

Inscribed face 0.40. If the block was complete, the text will have begun on a crowning feature.

Letters

0.025. Ligatures: ΗΝ ll.2, 5; ΜΗ, l. 20; ΗΝ l.21.

Date

Probably soon after 212 A.D. (nomenclature, if the name is correctly restored)

Edition ἡ πόλις Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Αὐρήλιον Ζῆλον τὸν ῥήτορα καὶ σοφιστὴν ἀρχιερέα ταμίαν νεωποιόν κτίστην πολλὰ καὶ διὰ συνηγοριῶν κατορθώσαντα τῇ πατρίδι υἱὸν Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ζήλου ἀρχιερέως καὶ ἱερέως τῆς Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ πολλοῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ἔργοις ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων κοσμήσαντος τὴν πόλιν

Translation

[?The city (set up a statue of) Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Aur(elius) Zelos], rhetor and sophist, high priest, treasurer, neopoios, public builder, who also set many things to rights for his homeland by acting as an advocate; son of Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Zelos, high priest and priest of Aphrodite, who beautified the city by many great public works at his own expense.

Commentary

For this family see names index.

Locations

Unknown Neighbouring Settlement, Pirlibey: Recorded at Aphrodisias by Deering and Waddington; at Pirlibey (with other stones from Aphrodisias) by Anthopoulos, Pirlibey (1872)

Text Constituted From

Deering notebook; Publications

History of Recording

Recorded by Deering (page 3, unnumbered); by Waddington; by K. G. Anthopoulos in 1872. Not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published, from Deering, by Leake 5; by Waddington, 1598bis, whence McCabe 260 ; by K. G. Anthopoulos, III (1875) 80, on which see L. Robert, XIII, 114.

Representations

Deering notebook, page 3