Description:
White marble architrave block (W. 2.24 × H. 0.405 × D. 0.636) with cornice and three fasciae (0.125, 0.10 and 0.01), and face and simple intercolumniar decoration below.
Text:
Inscribed on the uppermost fascia.
Letters:
0.095–0.10.
Date:
Late first century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, South-west: re-used in a field wall west of the Hadrianic Baths
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1988)
History of discovery:
Part copied by Kubitschek (K iii.47, Abklatsch 40). Found again by the NYU expedition (catalogue no. 88h).
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, fromKubitschek, 27, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 136; mentioned L. Robert, Ant. Class (1966) 391.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); notebooks; publication. This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 v. τὴν στοὰν Ἀφρ̣[οδίτῃ ·· ? ··]
1 ΤΗΝΣΤΟΑΝΑΦ·[····· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
τὴν
στοὰν
Ἀφ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
οδίτῃ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

K&R did not read anything before the first Ν

Translation:

[·· ? ·· dedicated] the stoa to Aphr[odite ·· ? ··]

Commentary:

There is no indication, at present, from which structure this block may have come.

Photographs:

Stone (1988)
 Stone (1988)

Representations:

Kubitschek III, 47
 Kubitschek III, 47

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