Description: Three fragments, not joining, from an white marble architrave with decoration (which is broken away) above three stepped fasciae, diminishing in height; a and c: not measured; b: w: 1.37 × h: 0.52 × d: 0.54.
Text: Inscribed on the upper two fasciae.
Letters: Upper fascia 0.10, lower fascia 0.08; elongated, ornate.
Date: Late fifth century (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: a: 'Dans le 2e entrec(olonnement) à partir du S(ud) du portique O(uest), S(ud) ' (Boulanger); b: 'Term. S(ud) du portique O(uest) '. (Boulanger).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Among the material from the French excavations in the East Court.
Apparatus
The location, 2e entrée IAph2007, corrected by Fabienne Marchand
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
a. [--- built the?] colonnade (scil. with) column from [---] Pytheas [---]
b. [---] suffering from necessity [---] had a mind.
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks a and b 1 November 1913 A, 78, 23 and 24, whence B 23, 29; New York University expedition a and b 70.215, c in 1989.
Publication: a and b published Roueché, ALA 58 and plate xiv, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 708 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/20 ; a, b and c ALA 2004 58, IAph2007 5.303.
Images
Fig. 1. a: face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. b: face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. c: face (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 4. a and b: Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 78