35. Flavius Sep<supplied reason="lost">timius</supplied> <seg cert="uncertain" part="N">a benefactor</seg> Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of 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.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper, tallest fascia.

Description of 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).

Edition Φλαβίου Σεπτιμι μητροπολ
Translation

a. Flavius Septimius

b. metropolis

Commentary

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 Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of 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).

Photographs

a: Face (1975)

b: Face (1977)

b: Face (1966)

Category of Text

building inscription

Category of Monument

revetment