4.114. Sundial dedication
- Description:
- Lower part of a white marble sundial, (W. 0.32 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.21), broken across the dial.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the lowest fascia of the moulding below.
- Letters:
- informal, Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms; scroll for abbreviation; 0.015-2.0.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- South Agora: in spoils dump to the East of the Agora Gate
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1992)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.53)
- Bibliography:
- cited by M-H Gates, AJA 98 (1994), 267 and fig. 11, whence BullEp 1995.136
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Κλ(αύδιος) Δ[·· ? ··]
- 1ΚΛΔ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αύδιος
</supplied>
Δ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Cl(audius) D[...]
Commentary:
This sundial resembles a Severan one said to have come from Aphrodisias and now in the Selcuk Museum.
Photographs:
- Face (1992)
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