Description: Two white marble architrave blocks, one complete (w: 1.57 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.58) and one broken away at the right end and damaged above (w: 0.99 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.59), slightly curving, both with simple moulding above and between the two fasciae.
Text: The first is inscribed on both fasciae (lines 1 and 2 on upper, line 3 on lower), the second on the upper one only; the texts have been erased at the left end of lines 1 and 2, and are interrupted by a bad flaw in the stone.
Letters: Standard forms; lines 1, 2, 0.048; line 3, 0.05.
Date: Probably first half of second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village the first in New Museum excavation area, the second in the area of museum offices
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1983)
Apparatus
2: Apparently a fault in the stone between Τ and Α.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
. . . ]] and Melition daughter of Pythion [made the . . . ] and everything in them [--- at] their own expense [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition while clearing for the Museum, Village 11
Images
Fig. 1. Block 1, left part (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Block 1, right part (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Block 1, face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 4. Block 2, face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 5. Block 2, face (M. Roueché, 1983)