Description: Four fragments (two of which join) of white marble revetment. a and b both have an upper edge surviving; otherwise, all sides are broken. b is made up of two joining pieces.
Text: Inscribed on two faces.
Letters: Face 1 has letters with clear triangular trenches, which are probably the earlier inscription; cut at 0.165 from the upper edge, they are 0.175 high. Face 2 has letters cut 0.085 from the upper edge; they have broad flat trenches, and measure 0.275.
Date: Face 2 perhaps mid fifth century. (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre Baths, Aula Thermale south, stratum 2, trench 3, at floor level.
Original location: Theatre Baths
Last recorded location: Museum (1977).
Apparatus
2.b.1: Face 2 of b is most easily read as Ἀμπε[λιο-] a reference to Ampelius. The final surviving letter might be Η rather than Ε, but the traces do not seem to suggest Ρ, the only other real possibility.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 74.198.a
Publication: Roueché, ALA 44 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 621 , ALA 2004 44, IAph2007 8.609.
Images
Fig. 1. 44.1.a and c: (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. 44.2.a: Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1974)
Fig. 3. 44.2.a and c: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. 44.2.c: Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1974)