Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.114. Restoration inscription

Description: White marble cornice block still partly buried (w: 1.71 × h: 0.20 visible × d: 0.66 visible), with beading above and below the inscribed fascia.

Text: Inscribed on one fascia. The text must have begun on a preceding, and continued on a subsequent block.

Letters: Average 0.035, not entirely even in height; triangular stop after the name.

Date: Perhaps late first to second centuries C.E. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-East, in a pile of stones in a field north of the Tetrapylon

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1977)

Interpretive

[---] Βαλεριανὸς ((stop)) τὰ κατενεχθέντα καὶ ( vac. 1) [---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΒΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟΣ ΤΑΚΑΤΕΝΕΧΘΕΝΤΑΚΑΙ  [---]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] Valerianus the things destroyed and [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1976 (Village 5)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)