12.415. Monumental fragment of building dedication

Description:: Two white marble blocks, from which an upper moulding has apparently been chipped away W. 1.42 × H. 0.38 × D. 0.43, cracked (perhaps broken) in two places.
Text:: Inscribed on the face.
Letters:: 0.06
Date:: Second century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Walls, South-east Gate: re-used in the north wall of the small vaulted chamber (? side-gate) at the the north side.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
History of discovery:: Recorded by Gaudin (120); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:: Published, from Gaudin, by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 227, no. 135; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 598, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 520
Text constituted from:: Publications; transcription (Beard) This edition Reynolds (2007).

1 [···]ος scroll Πεδιέως τοῦ Πε[διέως] ···]

1[···]ΟΣ scroll ΠΕΔΙΕΩΣΤΟΥΠΕ[·····]···]

<ab>

ος

Πεδιέως

τοῦ

Πε

διέως

</supplied>

</ab>

Translation:

. . . ]os, son of Pedieus, the son of ?Pe[dieus . . .

Commentary:

The text was regarded by Reinach as part of a monumental dedication, but figures in MAMA as funerary (persumably on the assumption that it was used in the wall of a tomb). The lettering and layout favour Reinach's view, and the room in which it is re-used is more probably a side chamber of the gate than part of a tomb.

The man named is otherwise unknown at present.