Description: Four fragments—three of which join to form a.—from a series of white marble panels with three fasciae, divided by grooves, and diminishing in height from top to bottom; a: three joining fragments, with left edge surviving (w: 0.69 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.025). b: broken at both ends (w: 0.51 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.055). Such variation in the thickness of revetment panels over a large area is not unusual.
Text: Inscribed on the upper, tallest fascia.
Letters: 0.11; Φ is at least 0.17, extending onto the fascia below, and must have extended on to the panel above. Simple, lightly cut.
Date: ?Fourth century. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bishop's Palace: a found re-used as a step in a doorway of the apsed room; b found in MAB, stratum 1.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum (1977).
Translation
(a). [---]Fl(avius) Sep(timius) [---]
(b). [---] metropolis [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 66.154, 66.155
Publication: Roueché, ALA 35 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 666 , ALA 2004 35; IAph2007 2.527.
Images
Fig. 1. a. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 2. b. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. b. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)