4.16. ?Place inscription of Theoktistos
- Description:
- White marble column.
- Text:
- 1.35 above base of column.
- Letters:
- Letters lunate, irregular, deeply cut but weathered; 0.02-0.03, cross 0.04.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location)
- Findspot:
- South Agora: north portico: nineteenth column from east : .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek (K. III.38, Abklatsch xxxi; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, ABSA 59, 1964, no. 23.1, whence Robert, AC 35 (1966), 381; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 202 and plate xli, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 685. Cormack suggests that there were two identical inscriptions, whence , ABSA 59, 1964, no. 23.2, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 686; this may have been a reference to 4.17, which is not identical.
- Text constituted from:
- Kubitschek notebook; publication; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross Θεοκτίστου .
- 1 cross ΘΕΟΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ
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Θεοκτίστου
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Translation:
(?Place) of Theoktistos.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.
Photographs:
- View of portico, east end, looking west
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- Column (2002)
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- Detail (2002)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Kubitschek (1893), notebook 3, p. 38.
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