Description:
Pilaster block.
Text:
Inscribed (W. 0.29 × H. 0.175) at H. 2.30 above present ground level.
Letters:
0.02; Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: on the east face of the second square column from the East at the north gate of the Baths.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1972)
History of discovery:
Seen and copied by Kubitschek (K III, 46; Abklatsch: 37). Recorded by Gaudin (74 and 140). Copied by Boulanger in 1905 (notebook p.39); recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by K&R, no. 3, Reinach (from Gaudin), 17, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 930 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebooks. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ἐάν τις ἔχων
2 χαλκὸν μὴ ⌜π⌝α-
3ραδείξῃ ἢτε ἐν
4 φούνδῃ ἢτε ἐν
5 καμπίστρῳ αὐ-
6τὸν αἰτιάσεται
1ΕΑΝΤΙΣΕΧΩΝ
2ΧΑΛΚΟΝΜΗΑ
3ΡΑΔΕΙΞΗΗΤΕΕΝ
4ΦΟΥΝΔΗΗΤΕΕΝ
5ΚΑΜΠΙΣΤΡΩΑΥ
6ΤΟΝΑΙΤΙΑΣΕΤΑΙ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἐάν
τις
ἔχων
<lb n="2" />
χαλκὸν
μὴ
<choice> type="correction"
<sic > </sic>
<corr>
π
</corr>
</choice>
α
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ραδείξῃ
ἢτε
ἐν
<lb n="4" />
φούνδῃ
ἢτε
ἐν
<lb n="5" />
καμπίστρῳ
αὐ
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
τὸν
αἰτιάσεται
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, ΙΙ for Π.

Translation:

If anyone having money (on him), whether in purse or belt, does not present it, it will be his own responsibility.

Commentary:

Another version of the text is 5.102 (=Baths 1).

Photographs:

Face (2001)
 Face (2001)
Face (2001)
 Face (2001)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook III, 46
 Kubitschek notebook III, 46
Gaudin squeeze
 Gaudin squeeze
Boulanger notebook A, 39
 Boulanger notebook A, 39

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