4.18. Place inscription of Ioan(nes)

Description:
White marble column.
Text:
Cut at 0.39 below fluting.
Letters:
Very rough and irregular, 0.15-0.03; scroll for abbreviation.
Date:
Fifth-sixth century (location, titulature)
Findspot:
South Agora: north portico: eighteenth column from east : .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 205, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 678.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1Ἰωάν(νου) ἐλλ(ογιμωτάτου).
1ΙΩΑΝΕΛΛ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Ἰωάν
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
νου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐλλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ογιμωτάτου
</supplied>
</expan>
.
</ab>

Translation:

(Place of) Ioannes, eloquentissimus.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.

Photographs:

View of portico, east end, looking west
 View of portico, east end, looking west
Column (1992)
 Column (1992)
Detail (1988)
 Detail (1988)

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