4.18. Place inscription of Ioan(nes)
- Description:
- White marble column.
- Text:
- Cut at 0.39 below fluting.
- Letters:
- Very rough and irregular, 0.15-0.03; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century (location, titulature)
- Findspot:
- South Agora: north portico: eighteenth column from east : .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 205, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 678.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Ἰωάν(νου) ἐλλ(ογιμωτάτου).
- 1ΙΩΑΝΕΛΛ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ἰωάν
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
νου
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐλλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ογιμωτάτου
</supplied>
.
</ab>
Translation:
(Place of) Ioannes, eloquentissimus.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.15.
Photographs:
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