Description:
White marble block, complete, without moulding (W. 0.67 × H. 0.42 × D. 0.70).
Text:
Inscribed at far left side of block; the text, at least of line 6, must have continued onto an adjacent block.
Letters:
0.0375-0.04
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east: just south of the South-east gate, west of 12.516 (=MAMA 599)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Deering (f.2v); copied by the MAMA expedition in 1934; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1977.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, MAMA 430, whence Hellenica 13, 171-172, BE 1966.395; Robert, BCH 107, 1983, 510-511; SEG 1983.855; Robert, BCH 108, 1984, 457; BE 1984.409, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 383 .
Text constituted from:
Publications, notebooks, Preliminary transcription (Beard, Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 κωλύ-
2ει ὁ τό-
3πος τοῦ
4 σιδήρου
5 τὴν δέ-
6σιν ΕΠΙ
7 vac.
1ΚΩΛΥ
2ΕΙΟΤΟ
3ΠΟΣΤΟΥ
4ΣΙΔΗΡΟΥ
5ΤΗΝΔΕ
6ΣΙΝΕΠΙ
7   
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<lb n="1" />
κωλύ
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ει
τό
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
πος
τοῦ
<lb n="4" />
σιδήρου
<lb n="5" />
τὴν
δέ
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
σιν
ΕΠΙ
<lb n="7" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

...

Translation:

The place prohibits the binding of iron under [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

CF SEG 1975.984, μὴ φέρειν σίδηρον ἐς τὸ ἱερόν

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

Representations:

Deering page 2v
 Deering page 2v

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