13.503. Building dedication to Demos

Description:
A single block of white marble ?Architrave block (H. 2.59 × W. 0.39 x depth not measurable).
Text:
Letters:
l. 1, 0.07, l.2, 0.06-0.065
Date:
Late first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:
Necropolis, South-west: In a reservoir 3 km. west of the city wall (the Theatre bears 75o); same general area as 13.609 (=MAMA 411), 13.502 (=MAMA 533).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1934)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 441, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 117.
Text constituted from:
Publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1Μένανδρος Ἀττάλου [τὰ ἐπιστύλια]
2 καὶ τὸν ἐπ′ αὐτῶν [κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι]
1ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ[············]
2ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠ′ΑΥΤΩΝ[················]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Μένανδρος
Ἀττάλου
<supplied reason="lost" >
τὰ
ἐπιστύλια
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
καὶ
τὸν
ἐπ′
αὐτῶν
<supplied reason="lost" >
κόσμον
τῶι
Δήμωι
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

Menandros son of Attalos, [the epistyles] and the [decoration] on them [for the People].

Commentary:

This is one of a group of such texts, all others 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.

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