Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.407. Building dedication to Aphrodite

Description: White marble architrave block (w: 2.24 × h: 0.405 × d: 0.636) with cornice and three fasciae (0.125, 0.10 and 0.01), and face and simple intercolumniar decoration below.

Text: Inscribed on the uppermost fascia.

Letters: 0.095–0.10.

Date: Late first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-west: re-used in a field wall west of the Hadrianic Baths

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1988)

Interpretive

( vac. 1) τὴν στοὰν Ἀφρ̣[οδίτῃ ---]

Diplomatic

  ΤΗΝΣΤΟΑΝΑΦ.[.....---]

Apparatus

1: Kubiutschek did not read anything before the first Ν

Translation

[--- dedicated] the stoa to Aphr[odite ---]

Commentary

There is no indication, at present, from which structure this block may have come.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.47, Abklatsch 40 (part); New York University expedition in 1988, 88h

Publication: Cormack, 1964 27 , whence Robert, 1966 391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 136 ; IAph2007 11.407.

Images

Fig. 1. Stone (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook III, 47