Description: Six white marble benches: i: w: 1.25 × h: 0.46 × d: 0.335. ii: Broken below, and to right, w: 1.35 × h: 0.45 × depth not measurable. iii: w: 1.02 × h: 0.45 × d: 0.39. v: w: 0.98 × h: 0.44 × depth not measurable. vi: w: 1.53 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.32. vii w: 1.24 × h: 0.46 × d: 0.33.
Text: Inscribed in the centre of the upper face; vii is partly hidden.
Letters: Varying from 0.04 (o), in vii to 0.07 (i. ii, vi) to 0.085 (v) to 0.09 (iii) to 0.10 (iv). Scroll for abbreviation.
Date: Fourth to sixth centuries CE (lettering, re use)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: i a stray find; ii, iii, v, vi and re-used in the Byzantine Byzantine defence wall across the east end; vii reused in the upper structure at the north-east end of the cavea.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: ii, iii, vii findspot; i, v, vi loose in the Theatre area.
Apparatus
iv: The item recorded as number iv is in fact identical with number iii, after the dismantling of the wall. ala2004,, IAph2007
English translation
Translation source: CMR
(i): Theod(oritai?)
(ii): Eut(ychitai?)
(iii): Herak(leitai?)
(iv: a duplicate)
(v): Herak(leitai?)
(vi): Herak(leitai?)
(vii): Theo[d](oritai?)
Bibliography
Recorded: New York University expedition i-vi before 1989, vii in 1992
Publication: i-vi: Roueché, ALA 212 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 701, 693, 694, 695, 696, 697 ; i-vii: ALA 2004 212, IAph2007 8.265.
Images
Fig. 1. i (Mossman Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. ii and iii, in the wall (Mossman Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. ii and iii, in the wall (Mossman Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 4. iii, after extraction (Mossman Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 5. v and vi (Mossman Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 6. vii (Mossman Roueché, 1989)