Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.402. Place inscription of Heptamenios et al.

Description: White marble column plinth.

Text: Inscribed along upper rim.

Letters: Lightly cut and very irregular; av. 0.03.

Date: Third-fourth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrapylon: on the base of the the second standing column from the south, in the westernmost colonnade. This face is now to the east—that is, facing inwards; but this may be the result of the reconstruction of the Tetrapylon in the late fourth century.

Original location: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

τόποϲ Ἑπταμηνίου κὲ γαμ̣[ετῆϲ].

Diplomatic

ΤΟΠΟϹΕΠΤΑΜΗΝΙΟΥΚΕΓΑ.[....]

Apparatus

1: Reinach read at the end ΚΕΠΛΝ whence Grégoire restored κὲ π[α]ν[τὸς τοῦ γένους? ---]

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

Place of Heptamenios and (scil. his?) wife.

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 68; New York University expedition.

Publication: Reinach, 1906 216 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 267 ; Roueché, ALA 207 and plate xliii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 677 , ALA 2004 207, IAph2007 1.402.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 2. View from east (M. Roueché, 2004)