Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.2. Graffito illustrating munera

Description: White marble column: cut on the smooth surface

Text: Lightly cut graffito

Letters: None

Date: First to seventh centuries CE (content, context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico, on column 67 from the east.

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

(Images of 3 running lions)

Diplomatic

(Images of 3 running lions)

Apparatus

Depiction of a bull fighting a lion Roueché, PPA, IAph2007

Translation

No text

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, PPA 42 ; IAph2007 4.2; Chaniotis and De Staebler, 2018 2-4; Chaniotis, 2024 NS331

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1984)