1.506. Place inscription of mydrostasia
- Description:
- White marble masonry block (W. W. 0.71, H. H. 0.25, depth not measurable).
- Text:
- Cut on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.035.
- Date:
- Fifth-tenth century A.D. (lettering, content)
- Findspot:
- Tetrapylon street: reused in a low course of the east wall of the portico on the east side of the street, south of the Tetrapylon.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU excavation in 1988.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 208, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 699.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription from photograph (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross τό(πος) μυδροστα-
- 2σίας cross
- 1 cross ΤΟΜΥΔΡΟΣΤΑ
- 2ΣΙΑΣ cross
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τό
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πος
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μυδροστα
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σίας
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Apparatus
τό(πος) τῆς Roueché, ALA (from an inadequate photograph).
Translation:
Place of the ?forge.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.16.
- Photographs:
- none.
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