Description:
White marble block (W. 0.42 × H. 0.99 × D. 0.65) without moulding; broken above and on the upper left side, chipped at the right.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.The left side appears complete; the text must have begun on an adjacent block of a composite monument.
Letters:
0.02-0.025
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Loew; noted by Reichel (RI.16v); recorded by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently
Bibliography:
published by Franz, from Loew, b.2, whence LBW 1595, Liermann 14-16, no. 2; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records MAMA 8, no. 460, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 303
Text constituted from:
Publications, notebooks This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1[·· ? ·· ἐτείμησεν] Μενεκρά-
2[την ·· τοῦ Δι]ονυσίου Με̣ ν-
3[·· c. 7 ·· [χρ]υσῷ στεφάνῳ
4[εἰκόνι χαλκ]ῇ γραπτῇ προεδρί-
5[ᾳ ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς] ἀγῶσιν σιτή-
6[σει δημοσίᾳ ἀρε]τῆς ἕνεκεν
7[? vac. τῆς εἰς ἑ]αυτόν vac.
1[ - - - ·········]ΜΕΝ[····
2[··· ·······]ΟΝΥΣΙΟΥΜ·[·]
3[·······[··]ΥΣΩΣΤΕΦΑΝΩ
4[··········]ΗΓΡΑΠΤΗΠΡΟΕΔΡΙ
5[············]ΑΓΩΣΙΝΣΙΤΗ
6[·············]ΤΗΣΕΝΕΚΕΝ
7[··········]ΑΥΤΟΝ   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐτείμησεν
</supplied>
Μεν
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
εκρά
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
την
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῦ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Δι
</supplied>
ονυσίου
Μ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
ν
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
χρ
</supplied>
υσῷ
στεφάνῳ
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
εἰκόνι
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
χαλκ
</supplied>
γραπτῇ
προεδρί
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πᾶσιν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῖς
</supplied>
ἀγῶσιν
σιτή
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σει
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
δημοσίᾳ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀρε
</supplied>
τῆς
ἕνεκεν
<lb n="7" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῆς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
εἰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
αυτόν
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were read by Loew, but not by the MAMA team.

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
none.

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