Description: Two fragments, broken at both ends of a white marble architrave block with two fasciae, with a decoration on the underside of whorls and diamonds: a: broken on all sides, both fasciae surviving, w: 0.48 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.68; b: broken on all sides, lower fascia surviving, w: 0.145 × h: 0.19 × d: 0.21.
Text: Inscribed a on both fasciae (upper 0.135, lower 0.105; b on one fascia
Letters: Ornate with large serifs, open bowled rho; upper line 0.085-0.095; lower line 0.085; similar lettering to 6.5, but not identical, and on a different monument.
Date: Fourth-sixth century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
. . . ]?fatherland [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition a unnumbered, b: 72.249
Images
Fig. 1. a: Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. b: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. b: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)