Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.718. Place inscriptions(?) of Leon and Philippos

Description: Two adjacent white marble masonry blocks.

Text: i on the block to the left, ii on that to the right, which is cracked.

Letters: 0.045; scroll and apostrophe for abbreviation.

Date: Fifth to sixth centuries C.E., or later (content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (west part): south face, on the east face of a bastion some way west of 12.541.

Original location: Walls, South (west part)

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
((Cross))
Λεον̣-
το̣ ( vac. )
ii
((Cross)) Φιλίπ(που) Ϛ

Diplomatic

i

ΛΕΟ.
Τ.      
ii
ΦΙΛΙΠϚ

Apparatus

Grégoire read these as one consecutive text, and read the first name as Μ[αθε]ου. Grégoire, IGC, 1922

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

(i): (scil. Place of?) Leon.

(ii): (scil. Place of?) Philippos.

Bibliography

Transcription: Reichel, 1893 R.I.20; New York University expedition

Publication: Grégoire, IGC, 1922 257ter, from Reichel ; Roueché, ALA 211 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 781, 787 , ALA 2004 211, IAph2007 12.718.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Reichel notebook 1, page 20