5.11. Place inscription of Epiktetos, cloakroom-attendant
- Description:
- A white marble revetment panel, re-used in the flooring of the baths.
- Text:
- In its present position the inscription is difficult to see, and l.6 is truncated.
- Letters:
- Irregular, careful and very ornate: 0.035-0.05.
- Date:
- Fourth-fifth century A.D. (context, content)
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: in an inner chamber - perhaps the caldarium.
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths.Last location in antiquity: Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 190 whence PHI 675.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross v. cross
- 2 [[[·· c. 8 ··]]]
- 3 [[[·· c. 10 ··]]]
- 4 cross τόπος Ἐπικτήτου cross
- 5 κανψαρίου leaf
- 6 cross
- 1 cross cross
- 2 [[[········]]]
- 3 [[[··········]]]
- 4 cross ΤΟΠΟΣΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΥ cross
- 5ΚΑΝΨΑΡΙΟΥ leaf
- 6 cross
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="8"
unit="character"
/>
</del>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="10"
unit="character"
/>
</del>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
τόπος
Ἐπικτήτου
<g
type="cross"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
κανψαρίου
<g
type="leaf"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Place of Epiktetos, cloakroom-attendant.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.10.
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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