Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.405. Building dedication to Demos

Description: Architrave block

Text: No description

Letters: No description

Date: Late first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east Gate, near 12.505, 12.602, 12.523

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Ὑψικλῆς Ἀδράστου τὸ ἐπιστύλιον
καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι

Diplomatic

ΥΨΙΚΛΗΣΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΟΕΠΙΣΤΥΛΙΟΝ
ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

Apparatus

2: ΑΥΤΟ Wood, 1750

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Hypsikles son of Adrastos, 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.

12.506 may be a fragment of this text, and was published as such as MAMA VIII, 440.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 15v; Sherard, 1705 12; Wood, 1750 14, loose page 44

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2752 , whence, and from MAMA 8 440, McCabe, PHI, 1996 116 ; IAph2007 12.405.

Images

Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.9r, at British Library

Fig. 2. Wood notebook 14, page 50

Fig. 3. Wood notebook 14, loose page 44