Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.302. Building dedication to Demos by Eupolemos son of Artemidoros

Description: White marble block (w: 0.51, no other measurements)

Text: Apparently inscribed on the face

Letters: Apparently up to 0.05.

Date: Perhaps first century BCE to first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-east: reused in a field wall inside the city wall

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)

Interpretive

Εὐπόλεμος
Ἀρτεμιδώρου
τὸν πύργον
τῶι Δήμωι

Diplomatic

ΕΥΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ
ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥ
ΤΟΝΠΥΡΓΟΝ
ΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

Translation

Eupolemos son of Artemidoros, the tower, for the People.

Commentary

This is one of a group of such texts, almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405, 12.503, 12.504, 12.505, 12.506, 13.503, 12.406, 12.407, 12.408, 12.404.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.V.1a, Abklatsch 86.

Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 4 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 125 ; IAph2007 11.302.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook V. 1a