Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.4. Warning against theft

Description: Pilaster block.

Text: Inscribed (w: 0.29 × h: 0.175) at 2.30 above present ground level.

Letters: 0.02; second to third centuries C.E. standard forms

Date: Hadrianic, 117-138 CE (lettering, archaeological context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: Tetrastyle Court, north entrance, on the east face of the second square column from the East.

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, Tetrastyle Court

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

ἐάν τις ἔχων
χαλκὸν μὴ ⸢π⸣α-
ραδείξῃ ἢτε ἐν
φούνδῃ ἢτε ἐν
5 καμπίστρῳ αὐ-
τὸν αἰτιάσεται

Diplomatic

ΕΑΝΤΙΣΕΧΩΝ
ΧΑΛΚΟΝΜΗΑ
ΡΑΔΕΙΞΗΗΤΕΕΝ
ΦΟΥΝΔΗΗΤΕΕΝ
5ΚΑΜΠΙΣΤΡΩΑΥ
ΤΟΝΑΙΤΙΑΣΕΤΑΙ

Apparatus

2: ΙΙ for Π.

Translation

If anyone having money (on him), whether in purse or belt, does not present it, it will be his own responsibility.

Commentary

Another version of the text is 5.102.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.46, Abklatsch 37; Mendel, 1905 ; Gaudin, 1904 74, 140; Boulanger, notebooks A, 53; New York University expedition

Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893, 3 , Reinach, 1906, 17 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 930 ; IAph2007 5.4; Wilson, 2016 p.180.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (2001)

Fig. 2. Face (2001)

Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook III, 46

Fig. 4. Face (Gaudin squeeze, 1904)

Fig. 5. Boulanger notebook A, 39