55. Acclamation for Pytheas

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History

Description

• Monument: Upper right corner of a white marble base shaft without moulding (0.20 × 0.36 × 0.36) which has been re-used; the top has been hollowed out.
• Text: Inscribed on the face, above which two holes have been cut.
• Letters: Av. 0.04; angular and irregular; scroll for abbreviation.
• Date: Late fifth century (prosopography).

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Translation

Up with Pytheas, magnificentissimus and illustris [...]

Photographs

Face (1977)

Commentary

For Pytheas see 56, 57, 58, 250 and discussion at V.18.

Locations

• Found: Village: a stray find in the south-east area of the village.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75. 259).
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 55 and plate xiii, whence PHI 840.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History