Description: Two complete white marble blocks, from the plain architrave blocks, which do not join, with a simple moulding above two fasciae. i: w: 2.66 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.36; ii: w: 2.03 × h: 0.36 x depth not measurable
Text: Inscribed in one line on each fascia, 0.13-0.15.
Letters: Rather light cutting; i: 0.07, ii: 0.08.
Date: Perhaps first century BCE to first century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls: 'au dégagement de la statue de femme' Gaudin; reused together to create a course on top of South-east Gate tomb
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1976)
Apparatus
ii: Letters highlighted were seen by Gaudin but not by us
Translation
i: Antipatros son of Menis, the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.
ii: Dionysios son of Adrastos the son of Dionysios, the epistyle and the decoration on it 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.III.55, Abklatsch 62 (i); Gaudin, 1904 49, 50 (i and ii); New York University expedition (i and ii)
Publication: i: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 4 ; i and ii: Reinach, 1906 127 and 128 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 124, 126 ; IAph2007 12.404.
Images
Fig. 1. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. i and ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 5. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 6. i: Kubitschek notebook III.55