12.408. Building dedication to Demos

Description:
White marble architrave block with moulding above chipped away for re-use (W. 0.258 [[check]] x W. 0.365).
Text:
Inscribed on one fascia
Letters:
0.045-0.05
Date:
Late first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east Gate: eeused, with 12.406, 12.407 (=MAMA 442 and 443), to form a course in walls, just north of the gate, below 12.403 (=MAMA 463).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (12); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 130ii; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 444, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 120.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 vac. ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι
1   ΕΠ'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ
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ἐπ'
αὐτοῦ
κόσμον
τῶι
Δήμωι
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Translation:

[·· ? ··the epistyle and the] decoration on it for the People.

Commentary:

This is one of a group of such texts,almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405 (=CIG 2752), 12.503 (=LBW 1589), 12.504 (= LBW 1591), 12.505 (=MAMA 439), 12.506 (=MAMA 440), 13.503 (=MAMA 441), 12.406 (=MAMA 442), 12.407 (=MAMA 443), 12.408 (=MAMA 442), 12.404 (= Reinach 127 and 128).

The group discussed byReynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39..

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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