Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

7.10. Fragment with alphabet

Description: Fragment of a stele or a panel, with back, probably bottom and perhaps left edge surviving (w: 0.23 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.07).

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Standard second to third century CE forms; ave. 0.03; guidelines; possibly, but not certainly, two hands.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Martyrion: SWC 5, W. Narthex

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[.]Ι̣Ι̣ΛΟΙ̣[---]
ΑΒΓΔΕ̣[---]
( vac. 4) ((scroll)) [---]
( vac. 1) ΑΒΓΔΕ̣[---]
( vac. 1 line)

Diplomatic

[------]
[·]..ΛΟ.[---]
ΑΒΓΔ.[---]
         [---]
  ΑΒΓΔ.[---]
     vacat

Translation

No translation possible.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1962, 62.249

Publication: IAph2007 7.10.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)