Description: White marble corner block, complete, without moulding (w: 0.69 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.68); the block shows marks of reuse, perhaps more than once.
Text: Inscribed at the far left side of block; the text must have begun on an adjacent block, and there is no indication of how long the lines might have been.
Letters: 0.0375-0.04
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: just south of the South-east gate, west of 12.516
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: Kokkinia, 2005
References to prohibition; to ?an [imperial] procurator; to [?the use] of iron.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
The place prohibits the binding of iron under [---]
Commentary
, probably from a document dealing with the city's exemption from taxes on iron or nails, for which see 8.34, 11.412 and perhaps 2.307 .
Bibliography
Transcription: Deering, 1812 in f.2v; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1977
Publication: MAMA 8 430 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 171-172, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.395 , Robert, 1983 510-511, SEG 33.855, Robert, 1984 457, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1984.409 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 383 ; IAph2007 12.510; Kokkinia, 2005, whence AE 2005.1470, SEG 55.1108
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Deering page 2v