Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.516. Place inscription(?) of Philothe[os]

Description: A large white marble masonry block (w: 0.78 × h: 0.94 × d: c.0.21).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Irregular, av. 0.03, phi 0.07.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: re-used on the south face, on a bastion, a short way west of the south-east gate.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

( vac. ) τόποϲ Φιλοθε ( vac. )

Diplomatic

      ΤΟΠΟϹΦΙΛΟΘΕ      

Translation

Translation source: Roueché, ALA

Place of Philotheos ?.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 34, whence Sherard, 1705 46; Bailie, 1842; Loew, 1841; Waddington, 1850; Reichel, 1893 R.I.17v (mention); Calder, 1934; New York University expedition

Publication: Bailie, 1843, 50 and 83, Bailie, 1846 73; from Sherard and Bailie CIG IV, 1856 9272 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1650 ; Franz, 1847 b.15 ; from all these Ramsay, 1897 426 , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 249 ; MAMA 8 599 ; Roueché, ALA 209 and plate xliii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 682 , ALA 2004 209; IAph2007 12.516.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)