Description: White marble block (w: 0.32 × h: 0.18 × d: ?).
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a panel (w: 0.25 × h: 0.13)
Letters: 0.008 (line 5) -0.017 (lines 1-4); square sigma.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering, phonetics, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: 'reversed in a wall of a Turk's house at ye east end of ye town' (Sherard),' In muro apud Turcam domum in orientali pagi parte' (Picenin)i.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
The plot belongs to Menandros Kointhos III (i.e. son of Menandros son of Menandros) son of Akathios Hekaton, and his heirs
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 20v, and, from Tisser, 54vcf. also f.77, whence Sherard, 1705 16v; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2844 ; MAMA 8 536 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 508 ; IAph2007 11.11.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.9r, at British Library