Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

16.168. Fragment

Description: Fragment broken on all suides, but probably from a white marble statue base (w: 0.24 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.24).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Standard forms, no measurements; similar to the caryatid series

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico: NC 85-2, surface.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1988)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Ο̣Ι̣[---]
[---]ΠΕ̣[---]
[---τ]ῷ δ[ήμῳ?---]
( vac. )

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]..[---]
[---]Π.[---]
[---.]ΩΔ[...---]
     vacat

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

Perhaps a dedication to the People

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 85.106

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)