Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

233. Fragment of verse 234. Place inscription of Synodius

Monument: A white marble base capital fragment, with moulding on three sides, smooth surface on fourth. Broken at one side. (0.35 × 0.49 × 0.69).
Text: 233: Inscribed on the smooth face; 234: Inscribed upside down on lower moulding of central moulded side (so secondary use) opposite 233 (and the other way up).
Letters: 233: Careful, ornate lettering. 234: Letters very irregular, 0.015–0.04. Cursive delta, lunate sigma.
Date: 233: Fourth to sixth century (lettering, metre); 234; later than 233.

233

234

Συνοδίου τόπο[ς]

233. [...] ?with power [...]

234. Place of Synodius.

234: Boulanger read ΕΡΝΟΔΙΟΝ

Back of block (1988)	233: Face (1988)	234: Face (1988)

Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p.67

233: see discussion at IV.37.

234: See discussion at XI.10 and, for topos inscriptions, XI.2.

Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'grande salle de l'al(eipterion)' (Boulanger). Chamber at east side of the east court (NYU).
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

Recording: First found by Mendel; recorded by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 67 no. 3, whence B, 3); recorded by the NYU expedition in September 1988.
Bibliography: Published by Grégoire IGC 278, from Mendel, whence PHI 646.
Text constituted from: Publication; notebook; transcription (Roueché).

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