Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.8. Place inscription(?) of Kes(- - -)

Description: White marble column.

Text: Inscribed 1.38 above base of column.

Letters: Letters lunate, 0.07 (Κ) to 0.035. Scroll for abbreviation.

Date: Fourth to sixth centuries C.E. or later (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: North portico, twenty-fifth column from east .

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

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Κηϲ(- - -) ((scroll))

Diplomatic

ΚΗϹ

Apparatus

Perhaps Κησ(ώνιος), Cesonius Chaniotis, 2024

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

(scil. Place of?) Kes-〈---〉

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA 203 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 394 , ALA 2004 203,, IAph2007 4.8; Chaniotis, 2024 NS63.

Images

Fig. 1. View of portico, looking north

Fig. 2. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 3. Detail (M. Roueché, 1985)