Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.605. Place inscription of Alexandros, barber

Description: Blue marble column.

Text: Very lightly cut at 1.66 above ground.

Letters: Rough, 0.03-0.04.

Date: Fourth-sixth century, or later (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre Baths, East portico: eastern colonnade, seventh column from north, next to 8.606.

Original location: Theatre Baths, East portico

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

((Cross)) Ἀλέξαν-
δροϲ
κουρέοϲ
τόποϲ
5((Cross)).

Diplomatic

† ΑΛΕΞΑΝ
ΔΡΟϹ
ΚΟΥΡΕΟϹ
ΤΟΠΟϹ
5 †

Apparatus

3: The epsilon is cut above the line, and there is a vertical stroke from the lower edge of the omicron, perhaps intended to indicate omega.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

Place of Alexandros, barber.

Bibliography

Recorded: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA 191, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 673 , ALA 2004 191, IAph2007 8.605.

Images

Fig. 1. View of portico (Mossman Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. ALA 191 (Mossman Roueché, 2004)

Fig. 3. ALA 191 (Roueché, 2004)

Fig. 4. Theatre Baths,east portico: eastern colonnade (Roueché, 2004)