Description: A white marble base capital fragment, with moulding on three sides, smooth surface on fourth. Broken at one side. (w: 0.49 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.69).
Text: i: Inscribed on the smooth face; ii: Inscribed upside down on lower moulding of central moulded side (so secondary use) opposite i (and the other way up).
Letters: i: Careful, ornate lettering.ii: Letters very irregular, 0.015–0.04. Cursive delta, lunate sigma.
Date: i: Fourth to sixth century; ii; later than i. (lettering, metre)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: Aleipterion, 'grande salle de l'al(eipterion) '.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
i: [θεία δ]ύναμι / [φύλ]ατε [—] Grégoire, IGC, 1922
ii.1: ΕΡΝΟΔΙΟΝ Boulanger, notebooks
Translation
(i): [---] with power(?) [---]
(ii): Place of Synodios.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905 ; Boulanger, notebooks 15 October 1913 A, 67 no. 3, whence B, 39, no. 43, 44; New York University expeditionin September 1988
Publication: Grégoire, IGC, 1922 278from Mendel , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 646 ; ALA 2004 233, ALA 2004 234, IAph2007 5.12.
Images
Fig. 1. Back of block (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 3. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 4. Boulanger, notebook A, p.67
Fig. 5. Boulanger, notebook B, p.39