Description:
A white marble cornice block with projcting moulding (H. 0.345 × W. 0.305 × D. 0.75).
Text:
Inscribed on the upper fascia of the moulding (H. H. 0.113).
Letters:
0.017; clear cut, with a flowing line similar to 5.302, 5.119, and 5.118.
Date:
First half of the fourth century (lettering).
Findspot:
South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'E(st), (N(ord))' (Boulanger); found in the same place by the NYU expedition.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1976).
History of discovery:
Excavated by Mendel in 1905, copied by Boulanger (notebook A, 65 no. 29, whence B 12-13, no. 11) recorded by the NYU expedition (75.278).
Bibliography:
Published by •Robert Hellenica 4, 14, n. 3 from Boulanger, (cf. Robert Hellenica 11-12, 25, Hellenica 13, 157); by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 17, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 604.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché); Boulanger notebooks; publication. This edition Roueché (2007).
1θῆκε κἀμὲ ἐνθάδε Ἑλλάδιος ὁ
2ἀνανεωτὴς τῆς λαμπρᾶς μητροπόλεως.
1ΘΗΚΕΚΑΜΕΕΝΘΑΔΕΕΛΛΑΔΙΟΣΟ
2ΑΝΑΝΕΩΤΗΣΤΗΣΛΑΜΠΡΑΣΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
θῆκε
κἀμὲ
ἐνθάδε
Ἑλλάδιος
<lb n="2" />
ἀνανεωτὴς
τῆς
λαμπρᾶς
μητροπόλεως
.
</ab>

Translation:

Helladios, the renovator of the splendid metropolis, established me also.

Commentary:

For Helladios see also 1.131, 5.118, and discussion see ala2004 II.35.

Photographs:

Face (1972)
 Face (1972)
Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

Representations:

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 65
 Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 65

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