Description:
White marble column.
Text:
Cut at 0.05 below fluting.
Letters:
Carefully cut, with serifs on Μ. Total height of inscription 0.26.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (location, content)
Findspot:
South Agora: south portico: twenty-fourth column from west (not second, as in ALA).
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 199 and plate xliii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 689.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross
2 ου
3 Μ
1 cross
2ΟΥ
3Μ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<lb n="2" />
ου
<lb n="3" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
μ
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

(?Place of) M(---)(os)

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.14.

Photographs:

View of South Agora, looking north-west
 View of South Agora, looking north-west
Detail (1972)
 Detail (1972)

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