Description: White marble block, broken to right (w: 0.61 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.29).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.015-0.04; rough and poorly aligned
Date: Possibly third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, West area: in a field 1 km west of the West gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)
Apparatus
1: ὁ τῆς [ἀρχ?] | ειερίας MAMA 8
2: tThe stone has ΕΥϹ; Cormack reported an upright after this, but A seems clear. Otherwise εὐϲε̣[βωϲ] would be an attractive
restoration
3: ἁγίασμ[α] MAMA 8 but there is room for 3-4 letters thereafter, and something more seems necessary to make sense of TO in line 4
Translation
Polychronios the brother-in-law of the [feminine ---] of the priestess, having made a vow [---] to the god with a view to the sanctification(?) of [---] Flavius ?Er(os) I made this.
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934
Publication: MAMA 8 457 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 172 , Chaniotis, EBGR 2005.20; IAph2007 13.617.
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