Description: Two joining fragments (a. approx. 0.31), and a third (b.) possibly from the same monument, from a white marble feature with a smooth, long, inscibed fascia, with mouldings above and below; the lower moulding is also the bottom of the feature—perhaps a column base or a low statue base.
Text: Inscribed in two lines on the fascia.
Letters: 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: a: Stray find; b: Walls, South (east part): in excavation of south wall gap, Tr. 1. a stray.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
b.1: Ρ̣ or Ι̣
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(a): [---] Peritianos Dometinos (?) [---] rhetor, sophist, high priest [---]
(b): Not usefully translatable
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition a: 70.216, 70.223, = 72.510; b: 76.52
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.99 (listed); Chaniotis, 2004b 80 (mention)
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Fragment b (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1976)
Fig. 3. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1977)