Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.503. Building dedication to Demos

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Text: None

Letters: No measurements

Date: Early first century BCE to early first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'On ye east by south side, to ye south of ye gate' (Sherard), near 12.505 (=MAMA 439)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1850)

Interpretive

[c. 12]που τὸ ἐπιστύλιον
[καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτο]ῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι

Diplomatic

[············]ΠΟΥΤΟΕΠΙΣΤΥΛΙΟΝ
[.............]ΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

Translation

. . . . son of ?Philip]pos 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: Picenini, 1705 17, whence Sherard, 1705 12 and 27; Fellows, 1840; Waddington, 1850

Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2753 ; Fellows, 1841 15; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1589 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 122 ; IAph2007 12.503.

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