Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.503. Building dedication to Demos

Description: A single block of white marble architrave block (w: 2.59 × h: 0.39 x depth not measurable).

Text: Unknown.

Letters: Line 1, 0.07, line 2, 0.06-0.065

Date: Late first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-west area: In a reservoir 3 km. west of the city wall (the Theatre bears 75o); same general area as 13.609 13.502.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)

Interpretive

Μένανδρος Ἀττάλου [τὰ ἐπιστύλια]
καὶ τὸν ἐπ'αὐτῶν [κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι]

Diplomatic

ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ[...........]
ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠΑΥΤΩΝ[..............]

Translation

Menandros son of Attalos, [the epistyles] and the [decoration] on them [for the People].

Commentary

This is one of a group of such texts, almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405, 12.503, 12.504, 12.505, 12.506, 13.503, 12.406, 12.407, 12.408, 12.404.

Bibliography

Transcription: Calder, 1934

Publication: MAMA 8 441 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 117 ; IAph2007 13.503.

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