4.9. ?Place inscription of Zotikos, peddlar
- Description:
- Tufa a masonry block (H. H. 0.57, W. W. 1.14).
- Text:
- Cut on the third course from ground level. There are other traces of inscriptions, including crosses and measures, on this wall.
- Letters:
- Letters square, in l.1, cursive l.4; ll. 1-3, 0.04-0.05; 1.4, 003-0.04. 1. 3 ΟΥ in ligature.
- Date:
- Fourth-sixth centuries A.D., or later (lettering, cross)
- Findspot:
- South Agora: at the south-east corner, on the north retaining wall of the Theatre: .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 206, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 688.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 τόπος
- 2 v. Ζοτικοῦ
- 3 v. καπήλου cross
- 4 v. εὐτυχῶς cross
- 1ΤΟΠΟΣ
- 2 ΖΟΤΙΚΟΥ
- 3 ΚΑΠΗΛΟΥ cross
- 4 ΕΥΤΥΧΩΣ cross
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τόπος
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Ζοτικοῦ
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καπήλ
ου
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εὐτυχῶς
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Translation:
Place of Zotikos, peddlar. With good fortune!
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.
Photographs:
- Text (1988)
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