Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.122. Fragment (of honours(?)) from city walls

Description: Fragment from the left side of a plain white marble block (w: 0.28 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.26).

Text: Inscribed on the only surviving face.

Letters: 0.045.

Date: First to third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: in field wall by gate east of Stadium near 13.116

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1989)

Interpretive

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[.]Ξ̣Ι̣Ι̣[---...]
Α̣ΝΟΜ[---]
Π̣ΟΛΙ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

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[·]...[---···]
.ΝΟΜ[---]
.ΟΛΙ[---]
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Translation

No words discernible.

Commentary

Perhaps a fragment of 12.1111 (=CIG 2782), 34-6, although the letters seem a little large.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 156

Publication: IAph2007 13.122.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, 1968)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)