Description: 15 fragments of 8 white marble architrave blocks from a series (standard length w: 2.50 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.76+). Five of the blocks are cut with frieze and architrave in one; the frieze bears a design of heads and masks joined by swags (0.90). Three blocks (2, 5, 8) are simple architrave blocks (0.49).
Text: The inscription runs in one line on the upper fascia of the entablature, on the eight westward faces.
Letters: 0.09-0.10
Date: Second century CE (lettering, reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon: in excavation of area
Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon: along the west face
Last recorded location: Museum or on site (1983)
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024
To the ancestral mother Aphrodite and the Divi Augusti and to the People, Diogenes 'the Younger', son of Menandros son of Diogenes, dedicated and constructed from his own finances the propylon from its foundations with the towers and the honorific statues of the Augusti and all the rest of the decoration -[ -.-]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
For [the goddess Aphrodi]te and the gods Augusti and the People: Diogenes the younger, son of Menandros son of Diogenes at his own expense set up and built from the foundations the Propylon together with the towers and the statues of the Augusti and all the rest of the decoration.
French translation
Translation source: Nathalie de Chaisemartin, 2024
A la déesse Aphrodite et aux Dieux Augustes et au peuple, Diogenès le Jeune, fils de Ménandros le fils de Diogenès, a élevé et dédié à ses frais la porte monumentale depuis ses fondations, avec les tours et les statues des empereurs et tout le reste de la décoration.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition (1: 77.47 + 77.47; 2: 80.32+ 80.30; 3: 80.31; 4: 80.15+ 80.27; 5-8: 83?, 83.294.
Publication: Nathalie de Chaisemartin, 2024 ; Chaniotis, 2024 2.
Images
Fig. 1. Plan, showing layout (Dinu Theodorescu)
Fig. 2. Block 2, left end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Block 2, right end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. Block 2, right end (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 5. Block 2, right end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 6. Block 3, left end fragment (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 7. Block 3, right part (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 8. Block 3, right part (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 9. Block 4 (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 10. Block 4 (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 11. Block 5, left end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 12. Block 5, right end (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 13. Block 5, right end (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 14. Block 6 (M. Roueché, 1983)