2.527. Flavius Sep[timius] ?a benefactor
- Description:
- 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 (H. 0.30 × W. 0.69 × D. 0.025). b: broken at both ends (H. 0.30 × W. 0.51 × D. 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).
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area, 'Bishop's Palace': a found re-used as a step in a doorway of the apsed room; b found in Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: MAB, stratum 1.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.155).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 35 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 666.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- a
- 1[·· ? ··] vac. Φλ(αβίου) Σεπ̣(τιμι)[?·· ? ··]
- b
- 1[·· ? ·· μητ]ροπολ̣[·· ? ··]
- a
- 1[ - - - ] ΦΛΣΕ·[? - - - ]
- b
- 1[ - - - ···]ΡΟΠΟ·[ - - - ]
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<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
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>
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αβίου
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<expan>
<abbr>
Σε
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π
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τιμι
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μητ
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ροπο
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λ
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Translation:
a. [·· ? ··]Fl(avius) Sep(timius) [·· ? ··]
b. [·· ? ··] metropolis [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 III.41.
Photographs:
- a. Face (1975)
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- b. Face (1977)
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- b. Face (1966)
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