Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.406. Building dedication to Demos

Description: White marble architrave block (w: 2.66 × h: 0.365) with moulding above chipped away for re-use.

Text: Inscribed on one fascia.

Letters: 0.06

Date: Late first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east Gate: reused, with 12.407 and 12.408, to form a course in the walls, just north of the gate, below 12.403

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)

Interpretive

[---] καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι

Diplomatic

[---]ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

Translation

[--- 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: Gaudin, 1904 13; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition

Publication: Reinach, 1906 131 ; MAMA 8 442 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 118 ; IAph2007 12.406.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)