12.506. Building dedication to Demos
- Description:
- Fragment from the right end of a white marble architrave block (W. 0.835 × H. 0.32 × D. 0.56).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.0775-0.09
- Date:
- Late first century B.C. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east (Reichel)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1934)
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Reichel (R I.22b); recorded by the MAMA expedition. Not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 440, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 116. Cormack thought this likely to be a fragment of 12.405 (=CIG 2752).
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· ? ·· τὸ ἐπιστ]ύλιον
- 2 [·· ? ·· τῶι Δή]μ̣ωι
- 1[ - - - ·······]ΥΛΙΟΝ
- 2[ - - - ·····]·ΩΙ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπιστ
</supplied>
ύλιον
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τῶι
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Δή
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
μ
</unclear>
ωι
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the epistyle [?and the decoration on it] for the People.
Commentary:
This is one of a group of such texts, 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:
- none.
Representations:
- Reichel notebook, I.22
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