Description: Fragment of white marble architrave from a Doric entablature (w: 0.42 × h: 0.375 × d: 0.245). The left side, although damaged, is probably an original edge.
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face; the text must have begun on preceding blocks.
Letters: Heights uneven, line 1 0.044-0.05, line 2 0.04-0.06; drawn freehand, and cut with trenches of uneven depth.
Date: First century BCE, probably triumviral, but possibly earlier (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): recorded by Kubitschek near 11.104 (=P&H 10); on a pile of loose stones on top of the wall, eastern stretch, a little south of the current entrance to the site
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: perhaps τὸ ἐπιστ̣ [ύλιον καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον?] ; cf. e.g. 12.505, but the parallel is not exact.
Translation
. . . ?built/dedicated] the epistyle [ and the decoration on it? . .? . . dedicated to Zeus] Nineudios [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.28a (sketch) and 36, Abklatsch 96; New York University expedition 92.3
Publication: Cormack, 1964 19 , whence Robert, 1966 394, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.548 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 135 ; Gates, 1994 268 (mention) and fig. 14, whence BE 1995.78 ; Smith, 1993a 355 and fig. 13, whence BE 1996.385 , SEG 44.864 , Chaniotis, EBGR 2013.34; IAph2007 12.304.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 4. Kubitschek notebook III, 28 (verso)
Fig. 5. Kubitschek notebook III, 36