Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.606. Fragment from south walls

Description: Fragment from the top of a white marble statue base (w: 0.12 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.20); a simple upper moulding survives, but no other edges.

Text: Inscribed on the face below moulding.

Letters: Simple, irregular in size and depth; hastily cut almost without serifs; ave. 0.03

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): in excavation, mid area, on surface.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]ΠΑ̣Τ̣[---]
[---]Ι̣ΥΛ[---]
[---]ΟΥ[---]
[---]Τ̣ΟΥ[---]
5[---]ΟΥ̣[---]
[---] ( vac. 3) [---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---]Π..[---]
[---].ΥΛ[---]
[---]ΟΥ[---]
[---].ΟΥ[---]
5[---]Ο.[---]
[---]      [---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: perhaps πατ[ρι-
2: perhaps Πα]π̣υλ[ο-
4: perhaps Π̣ΟΥ

Translation

No translation possible.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 76.98

Publication: IAph2007 12.606.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1976)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)