Description: Section of white marble cornice (w: 2.33 × h: 0.23 x depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on two of the three fasciae.
Letters: Second to third century forms; line 1, 0.03; line 2, 0.028.. Apex on first Υ, line 1.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): Found reused as part of a string course on the inner face of the excavated stretch.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1978)
Apparatus
The text probably extended to the left, but not to the right
1: ΑΙΧΕΡΕΩΣ
2: ΑΡΧΙΜΜΔΟΥ
Translation
[Aurelii? ... and ] Zenon and Hypsikles sons of Aurelius Zenon, highpriest three times, as well as brothers of Aurelius Ze[non .... according to the] testament to be displayed in the archives in the stephanephorate of Ariston fifth (descendant of that name) of Archimedes, in the month [...]
French translation
Translation source: AE
[Les Aurelii---] Zénon et Hypsiclès, fils d'Aurelius Zénon trois fois archiereus, et aussi frères d'Aurelius Zé[non ?---], en vertu du testament à publier aux archives, sous le stéphanéphorat d'Ariston, cinquième du nom, descendant d'Archimèdès, au mois [---].
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1975, Walls 112
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Left end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Right end (M. Roueché, 1977)