Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.285. Fragment

Description: Fragment from the top of a marble block (w: 0.16 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.22).

Text: Inscribed on one face in an area defined above by an incised line.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]ι̣ος Ζ̣[---]
[--- Ἀ]λ̣εξ̣[ανδρ ---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---].ΟΣ.[---]
[---.].Ε.[....---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: probably from a name, possibly of a Roman citizen (e.g. Ἰούλιος), although it cannot be excluded that we should read Π instead of Ι.
2: perhaps from Alexandros, or a related name; but Ξ could be Τ, Ε.

Translation

] [...]ius [... A]lex[andros? ...]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 73.245

Publication: IAph2007 15.285.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)