Description: A marble block, perhaps part of a door post which has been cut down for re-use (w: 1.29 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.41).
Text: Incised on the front face; total w: 0.22 × h: 0.13.
Letters: Irregular and not closely dateable, av. 0.01; squared Ω.
Date: Possibly no earlier than last quarter of fourth century (if indiction on line 3), but very uncertain.
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Found with other re-used material in the Theatre, apparently part of the rubble with which the cavea was filled in the seventh century
Original location: Theatre
Last recorded location: Theatre field depot (1980)
Apparatus
1: just possibly a Φ at the start of this line.
3: possibly from [ἰ]νδι[κτιών] , but a date is not particularly relevant here, so that a verb (? [ἐ]νδι[ατᾶται] ) might be considered more probable.
Translation
[?protect] ... / [blessing on] ... / [joy on] ..[---] this house [---]
Commentary
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Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Theatre dump 4
Publication: Reynolds and Tannenbaum, 1987 2 ; IAph2007 8.267.
Images
Fig. 1. Text (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Monument (M. Roueché, 1980)