18. Building inscription of Helladius

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Description

Monument: A rectangular white marble block, perhaps from a lintel (0.285 × 0.665 × 0.50) with simple moulding above and below on one face. Chipped to the right, but complete.
Text: Inscribed on the moulded face, in one line on the surface between the mouldings, which is slightly concave. The text must have continued onto an adjacent block.
Letters: Flowing style, similar to 12, 252 and 17; 0.05-0.06.
Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering, prosopography).

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^v. κἀμὲ Ἑλλάδιος ὁ ἁγνός [...]

Translation

Me also Helladius the pure [...]

Photographs

Face (1972)

Commentary

For Helladius see 16, 17 and List of Governors, Helladius.

For discussion see II.35.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths: central chamber.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 18, whence PHI 605.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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