Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.504. Building dedication to Demos

Description: Architrave; no description

Text: None

Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'sur une grande assise' in the foundations

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1850)

Interpretive

Μένανδρος Μηνοδότου ὑπὲρ Μηνοδότου τοῦ
πατρὸς καὶ ὑπὲρ Εὐγενήας τῆς μητρὸς τὸ ἐπιστύλιον
καὶ τὸν ἐπ'αὐτοῦ κόσμον [c. 4]ωι καὶ τῷ Δήμωι

Diplomatic

ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΥΠΕΡΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΤΟΥ
ΠΑΤΡΟΣΚΑΙΥΠΕΡΕΥΓΕΝΗΑΣΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΣΤΟΕΠΙΣΤΥΛΙΟΝ
ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝ[····]ΩΙΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩΙ

Apparatus

3: Waddington notes that in his notebook the lacuna is longer than in the printed epigraphic text.

Translation

Menandros son of Menodotos, acting for Menodotos his father and for Eugenia his mother, (gave) the epistyle and the decoration above it for [ . . . ] and 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: Waddington, 1850

Publication: Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1591 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 123 ; IAph2007 12.504.

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