Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

6.6. Informal text/list

Description: white marble double column with flat panels on either side.

Text: Scratched on a flat panel within a roughly-shaped tabula ansata with handles at top and bottom (w: 0.32 × h: 0.54): i in the upper handle, ii in the tabula, iii in the lower handle.There are perhaps traces of letters above. Some letters have been roughly erased, and others overcut.

Letters: Irregular, perhaps in several hands, roughly 0.015; some diamond-shaped omicrons.

Date: ?Fourth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Basilica: at the north-west side.

Original location: Basilica

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
⟦Δ̣Ι̣Κ̣Α̣Ι̣Ϲ̣Μ̣Ε̣Ϲ̣Ο̣Υ̣
Μ̣Η̣Ε̣Ο̣
Ε̣Ι̣Ο̣Ϲ̣⟧
ii
[((Cross))? Κ̣Α̣Τ̣Α̣ [c. 6]⟧
⟦Μ̣Ε̣Ρ̣Ε̣Ϲ̣[c. 6]⟧Α̣Τ̣Ε̣
Κ̣Υ̣Δ̣[c. 8]
Π̣Ε̣⟦[c. 10]⟧
5Α̣Τ̣Ω̣ Θεόδωροϲ̣
⟦Π̣Ε̣[---]Ε̣⟧
Ν̣Η̣Ϲ̣ Φιλίππου [---]
⟦Δ̣Η̣[c. 10]⟧
[c. 12]
iii
⟦Ε̣Π̣[---]
[c. 7]
[c. 8]⟧

Diplomatic

i
⟦...........
....
....⟧
ii
[.....[······]⟧
⟦.....[······]⟧...
...[········]
..⟦[··········]⟧
5...ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟ.
⟦..[---].⟧
...ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ[---]
⟦..[··········]⟧
[············]
iii
⟦..[---]
[·······]
[········]⟧

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2008a

Largely indecipherable. References in ii to Theodoros and to Philippos

Bibliography

Recorded: New York University expedition Agora 7

Publication: Reynolds, 2008a 4, whence SEG 58.1156, Stinson, 2016 Doc.6 (mention)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mossman Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 2. Face (Mossman Roueché, 1976)