35. Flavius Sep[timius] ?a benefactor

Monument: Four fragments—three of which join to form a.—from a series of white marble panels with three fasciae, divided by grooves, and diminishing in height from top to bottom; a: three joining fragments, with left edge surviving (0.30 × 0.69 × 0.025). b: broken at both ends (0.30 × 0.51 × 0.055). Such variation in the thickness of revetment panels over a large area is not unusual.
Text: Inscribed on the upper, tallest fascia.
Letters: 0.11; Φ is at least 0.17, extending onto the fascia below, and must have extended on to the panel above. Simple, lightly cut.
Date: ?Fourth century (lettering).

a. [...]Fl(avius) Sep(?timius) [...]

b. [...] metropolis [...]

a: Face (1975) b: Face (1977) b: Face (1966)

See discussion at III.41.

Found: 'Bishop's Palace': a found re-used as a step in a doorway of the apsed room; b found in MAB, stratum 1.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.195).
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 35 whence PHI 666.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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