Description:
White marble column.
Text:
i. H. 1.23 above base of column. ii. Below, and slightly to the right of i, H. 1.06 above base of column.
Letters:
i: clear and fairly regular, carefully cut with simple serifs; lunate sigma; av. 0.035, phi 0.06. ii: simpler, with a thicker trench; cursive omega, square sigma; av. 0.03. The first two letters have been partially erased.
Date:
Third-fourth centuries A.D. (context)
Findspot:
South Agora: north portico: third column from west: .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 201 and plate xlii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 392, 393.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
i
1 [τ]ό̣πος
2 Εὐγρα-
3φίου
4 φυλάρ-
5χου.
ii
1 τόπος
2 Ζωτικοῦ
3 [[[·· ? ··]]]
4 [[[·· ? ··]]]
i
1[·]·ΠΟΣ
2ΕΥΓΡΑ
3ΦΙΟΥ
4ΦΥΛΑΡ
5ΧΟΥ
ii
1ΤΟΠΟΣ
2ΖΩΤΙΚΟΥ
3 [[[ - - - ]]]
4 [[[ - - - ]]]
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τ
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πος
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Εὐγρα
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φίου
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φυλάρ
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χου
.
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τόπος
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Ζωτικοῦ
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Apparatus

There are other scattered letters of ii.

Translation:

i. Place of Eugraphios, phylarch.

ii. Place of Zotikos [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.

Photographs:

View of South Agora, looking north-west
 View of South Agora, looking north-west
Column (1985)
 Column (1985)
i: Face (1985)
 i: Face (1985)
ii: Face (1985)
 ii: Face (1985)
Scattered letters (1985)
 Scattered letters (1985)

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