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·[ - - - ]
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αβίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Σε
<unclear reason="damage" >
π
</unclear>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
τιμι
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap2" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
μητ
</supplied>
ροπο
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. [·· ? ··]Fl(avius) Sep(timius) [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··] metropolis [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 III.41.

Photographs:

a. Face (1975)
 a. Face (1975)
b. Face (1977)
 b. Face (1977)
b. Face (1966)
 b. Face (1966)

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