Description: Six white marble architrave blocks, complete (a) or in fragments (b, c, d). a: w: 1.555 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.765; b: Two fragments: w: 81 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.84 and w: 78 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.36; c: w: 0.215 × h: 0.235 × d: 0.10; d: Two fragments: w: 1.11 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.77 and w: 0.49 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.71
Text: Inscribed in one line on the upper fascia.
Letters: 0.08.
Date: First century A.D. (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion, in front of the east end of the South Portico; some fragments, along with other elements of the South Portico, found re-used in the North Portico
Original location: Sebasteion, South Portico, east end.
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
Ἀφροδίτηι θεοῖς Σε | βαστοῖς τ[ῷ Δήμῳ . . . ? Ἀττα | λὶς Μενεκράτους τ]|οῦ Ἄνδρω[νος Ἄ]πφιο | ν Reynolds, 1981b
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2013
Το Aphrodite, (the) Theoi Sebastoi Olympioi, (and) the Demos: Attalos son of Menandros son of Attalos and Attalis Apphion, daughter of Menekrates son of Andron (set this up)
French translation
Translation source: AE
Attalos, fils de Menandros, petit-fils d'Attalos, et Attalis Apphion, fille de Menecrates petite-fille d'Andron, (ont élevé cet édifice) à Aphrodite, aux dieux Augustes, et au peuple (d’Aphrodisias)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition a: 80.190; b: 80.173; c: 81.42; d: 79.186, 80.174; e: ?
Publication: Reynolds, 1981b 2 (partial), whence SEG 31.914 , AE 1982.888 , Reynolds, 1986 110, Smith, 1987 90, (mentions), whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 97 ; Full text Smith, 2013, from A. Chaniotis, Ded. 5, whence AE2013.1574, SEG 63.847.
Images
Fig. 1. Block a, view after excavation (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Block a, left part (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 3. Block a, right part (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 4. Block b, left end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 5. Block b, left end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 6. Block b, right end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 7. Block d, left end (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 8. Block d, right end (M. Roueché, 1980)