Description:
White marble column.
Text:
1.35 above base of column.
Letters:
Letters lunate, irregular, deeply cut but weathered; 0.02-0.03, cross 0.04.
Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location)
Findspot:
South Agora: north portico: nineteenth column from east : .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (K. III.38, Abklatsch xxxi; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, ABSA 59, 1964, no. 23.1, whence Robert, AC 35 (1966), 381; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 202 and plate xli, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 685. Cormack suggests that there were two identical inscriptions, whence , ABSA 59, 1964, no. 23.2, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 686; this may have been a reference to 4.17, which is not identical.
Text constituted from:
Kubitschek notebook; publication; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross Θεοκτίστου .
1 cross ΘΕΟΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
Θεοκτίστου
.
</ab>

Translation:

(?Place) of Theoktistos.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.

Photographs:

View of portico, east end, looking west
 View of portico, east end, looking west
Column (2002)
 Column (2002)
Detail (2002)
 Detail (2002)

Representations:

Transcription by Kubitschek (1893), notebook 3, p. 38.
 Transcription by Kubitschek (1893), notebook 3, p. 38.

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