Description: White marble architrave block with moulding above chipped away for re-use (w: 0.258 × h: 0.365).
Text: Inscribed on one fascia
Letters: 0.045-0.05
Date: Late first century BCE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east Gate: reused, with 12.406 and 12.407, to form a course in walls, just north of the gate, below 12.403.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
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 12; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 130 line 1 (je ne vois pas très clairement s'il agit de deux inscriptions différentes) ; MAMA 8 444 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 120 ; IAph2007 12.408.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)