Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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211. Place inscriptions of Leo and Philip

Description

• Monument: Two adjacent white marble blocks.
• Text: i on the block to the left, ii on that to the right, which is cracked.
• Letters: c. 0.045; scroll and apostrophe for abbreviation.
• Date: Fifth-sixth century, or later (content)

Text

Translation

i. (Place of) Leo.

ii. (Place of) Philip.

Apparatus

Grégoire read these as one consecutive text, and read the first name as Μ[αθε]ου.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Transcription by Reichel (1893), notebook 1, page 20

Commentary

See discussion at XI.17.

Locations

• Found: City walls: south stretch, south face, on the east face of a bastion some way west of 210; see plan 7.
• Original: Unknown
• Last Recorded: Findspot

History

• Recording: Copied by Reichel (9 June 1893, R.I.20); by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by Grégoire, IGC. 257 ter, from Reichel; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 211 whence PHI 781, 787.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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