5.20. ?Building works in the Hadrianic Baths
- Description:
- A fragment of white marble revetment panel with upper and lower edges (W. 0.26 × H. 0.21 × D. 0.04); there are traces of cement on the face from subsequent re-use.
- Text:
- Inscribed in two lines on the face.
- Letters:
- l.1, 0.07, l.2, 0.065; triangular trenches; ornate.
- Date:
- Fourth/fifth/sixth century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: north-west area, trench 1.
- Original Location:
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.356).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 49 and plate xii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 598.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]Λ̣ΙΩΝ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]ΤΡΗ[·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]·ΙΩ·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]ΤΡΗ[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
ιω
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ν
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
τρη
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
No words determinable.Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IV.37.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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