Description: A white marble lintel block with egg and dart moulding above two stepped fasciae (w: 4.95 × h: 0.75 × d: 0.95); the condition of the stone appears not to have altered since it was first recorded.
Text: i. is cut on the upper fascia, and ii. on the lower. A cross flanked by an alpha and an omega within a circle was later cut over i., probably at the time that ii. was cut, or perhaps when it was emended.
Letters: i. line 1, 0.07, line 2, 0.08; elongated, well-cut and regular; the Α of ἡγεμόνα was added above the line, 0.03; scroll for abbreviation; b. 0.04. ii. 0.07; well cut; abbreviations: last letter above line in ΜΗΤΡΟΠο, ΕΛΛΟΓΙΜο, ΣΧο; scroll in Φλ(αουίου), κ(αὶ), ἰνδ(ικτίωνοϲ).
Date: i: Fourth century CE. (titulature); ii: Fifth century CE (titulature, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, over the North-east Gate, with the inscription on the west (inner) face;
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
Earlier editors did not record the two stops (simple dots) or the apparent trace of a cross at the beginning of line 2; the
stone is broken here, and the reading is not certain.
i.1: τόν omitted by MAMA. The superscript Α was first noted by Reinach.
ii.1: After λαμπρᾶϲ the text originally read ΑΦΡΟΔΙϹΙΑΙΩΝ; the letters underlined here were subsequently erased and replaced, and the Ι of ΙΩΝ altered to Τ, to read ΤΑΥΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
i. The Council and the People (scil. have honoured) Fl(avius) Co<n>stantius, clarissimus praeses, who, as well as his other works, put up the wall
ii. For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the <S>tauropolitans, this work of the gate was also renewed, under Fl(avius) Ampelios, the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the eighth indiction.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
The Senate and the People honoured [probably by erecting a statue] the most splendid Flavius Constantius, who, among other works, also rebuilt the wall For the welfare of the splendid metropolis of the Taurupolitans, the works also about the gate were repaired under Flavius Ampelius, the most distinguished lawyer, and father [of the corporation, viz. its representative in legal affairs], in the eighth year of the Indiction.
Bibliography
Transcription: Sherard, 1705 11; Wood, 1750 14, 57, 14, loose page 46; Sestini, 1782; Richter, 1816 46; Deering, 1812 4, no.16; Texier, 1835; Fellows, 1840 ; Bailie, 1842 , who claims 'Descripsi de lapide super cameram fornicatam', but gives the wrong line divisions; he also has a copy from Borrell; Le Bas, 1843; Kubitschek, June 1893 xxx; Gaudin, 1904 1; Calder, 1934; J. and L. Robert, 1946; New York University expedition
Publication: Sestini, 1807 113; by F. Graese from Gell (Act. Acad. Petrop. VIII, 706); from Gell and von Richter Francke, 1830 II.74 and II.75 ; from all these and the Sherard papers CIG II.2, 1835 2745, 2746 ; Texier, 1839 159; Fellows, 1841 17 (and page 35) , Bailie, 1846 45 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 593, 594 ; Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 p.103 (cited); Reinach, 1906 136 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 270 ; Robert, Hellenica IV 61 note 2 and 130 note 5, with a plate, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1956.277 ; MAMA 8 427 ; Roueché, ALA 22 (i), 42 (ii) and plate vi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 609, 619 ; ALA 2004 22, whence LSA 234; IAph2007 12.101; Smith and Hallett, 2015 168-169
Images
Fig. 1. Left end (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Centre (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Right end (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 5. Walls: north east gate and ALA 140 (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 6. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.14v, at British Library
Fig. 7. Deering notebook, page 4
Fig. 8. Wood notebook 14, page 57
Fig. 9. Wood notebook 14, loose page 46