Description:
A white marble ?base capital fragment, with moulding on three sides, smooth surface on fourth. Broken at one side. (H. 0.35 × W. 0.49 × D. 0.69).
Text:
i: Inscribed on the smooth face; ii: Inscribed upside down on lower moulding of central moulded side (so secondary use) opposite 233 (and the other way up).
Letters:
i: Careful, ornate lettering. ii: Letters very irregular, 0.015–0.04. Cursive delta, lunate sigma.
Date:
i: Fourth to sixth century (lettering, metre); ii; later than i.
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: 'grande salle de l'al(eipterion)' (Boulanger). Chamber at east side of the east court (NYU).
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
First found by Mendel; recorded by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 67 no. 3, whence B, 3); recorded by the NYU expedition in September 1988.
Bibliography:
Published by Grégoire IGC 278, from Mendel, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 646; republished by •Roueché (2004), 233.
Text constituted from:
Publication; notebook; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· c. 9 ··] δ cross υναμε̣[·· c. 5 ··]
2[·· c. 9 ··] v. cross ΑΤΕ v.
3 v.
1Συνοδίου τόπο[ς]
1[·········]Δ cross ΥΝΑΜ·[·····]
2[·········]  cross ΑΤΕ 
3 
1ΣΥΝΟΔΙΟΥΤΟΠΟ[·]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" dim="left" />
δ
<g type="cross" />
υναμ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="5" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<g type="cross" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ατε
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="vertical" />
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Συνοδίου
τόπο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
</ab>

Apparatus

234: Boulanger read ΕΡΝΟΔΙΟΝ

Translation:

233. [·· ? ··] ?with power [·· ? ··]

234. Place of Synodios.

Commentary:

i: see discussion at ala2004 IV.37.

ii: See discussion at ala2004 XI.10.

Photographs:

Back of block (1988)
 Back of block (1988)
233: Face (1988)
 233: Face (1988)
234: Face (1988)
 234: Face (1988)

Representations:

Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p.67
 Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p.67

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