1.402. Place inscription of Heptamenios et al.
- Description:
- White marble column base.
- Text:
- Cut along upper rim.
- Letters:
- Lightly cut and very irregular; av. 0.03.
- Date:
- Third-fourth centuries A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Tetrapylon: on the base of the the second standing column from the south, in the westernmost colonnade. This face is now to the east—that is, facing inwards; but this may be the result of the reconstruction of the Tetrapylon in the late fourth century.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (68); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, no. 216, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 267; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 207 and plate xliii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 677.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1τόπος Ἑπταμηνίου κὲ γαμ̣[ετῆς].
- 1ΤΟΠΟΣΕΠΤΑΜΗΝΙΟΥΚΕΓΑ·[····]
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τόπος
Ἑπταμηνίου
κὲ
γα
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reason="damage"
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μ
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reason="lost"
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ετῆς
</supplied>
.
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Apparatus
Reinach read at the end ΚΕΠΛΝ whence Grégoire restored κὲ π[α]ν[?τὸς τοῦ γένους·· ? ··]
Translation:
Place of Heptamenios and (?his) wife.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.16.
Photographs:
- Face (1988)
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- View from east (2004)
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