Description: White marble architrave block, complete (w: 2.53 × h: 0.42 × depth not measurable) with a very simple single moulding above
Text: Inscribed on the face. The spacing of the text suggest that the block is from a composite monument.
Letters: 0.05-0.06 (omicron 0.035)
Date: Late first century BCE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: On ye east by south side, to ye south of ye gate (Sherard). Found re-used in the southern stretch, near excavated area, a little west of 12.523
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Hermogenes son of Hermogenes, the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
Hermogenes, the son of Hermogenes, [gives] the architrave, and the ornament upon it to 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 15 and, from Tisser, 74; Sherard, 1705 12; Wood, 1750 14, 55, 14, loose poge 45; Deering, 1812 12v, no. 41; Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842; Waddington, 1850; Reichel, 1893 R.I.24v (noted); Gaudin, 1904 138; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2751; Fellows, 1841 15; Bailie, 1846 70; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1590 ; Reinach, 1906 129 ; MAMA 8 439 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 84 ; IAph2007 12.505.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.9r, at British Library
Fig. 3. Wood notebook 14, page 55
Fig. 4. Wood notebook 14, loose page 45
Fig. 5. Deering notebook 12
Fig. 6. Reichel notebook, I.24v