5.4. Warning against theft
- Description:
- Pilaster block.
- Text:
- Inscribed (W. 0.29 × H. 0.175) at H. 2.30 above present ground level.
- Letters:
- 0.02; Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: on the east face of the second square column from the East at the north gate of the Baths.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1972)
- History of discovery:
- Seen and copied by Kubitschek (K III, 46; Abklatsch: 37). Recorded by Gaudin (74 and 140). Copied by Boulanger in 1905 (notebook p.39); recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by K&R, no. 3, Reinach (from Gaudin), 17, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 930 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebooks. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἐάν τις ἔχων
- 2 χαλκὸν μὴ ⌜π⌝α-
- 3ραδείξῃ ἢτε ἐν
- 4 φούνδῃ ἢτε ἐν
- 5 καμπίστρῳ αὐ-
- 6τὸν αἰτιάσεται
- 1ΕΑΝΤΙΣΕΧΩΝ
- 2ΧΑΛΚΟΝΜΗΑ
- 3ΡΑΔΕΙΞΗΗΤΕΕΝ
- 4ΦΟΥΝΔΗΗΤΕΕΝ
- 5ΚΑΜΠΙΣΤΡΩΑΥ
- 6ΤΟΝΑΙΤΙΑΣΕΤΑΙ
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ἐάν
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ἔχων
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χαλκὸν
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ραδείξῃ
ἢτε
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φούνδῃ
ἢτε
ἐν
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καμπίστρῳ
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τὸν
αἰτιάσεται
Apparatus
l. 2, ΙΙ for Π.
Translation:
If anyone having money (on him), whether in purse or belt, does not present it, it will be his own responsibility.
Commentary:
Another version of the text is 5.102 (=Baths 1).
Photographs:
- Face (2001)
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- Face (2001)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, 46
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- Gaudin squeeze
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- Boulanger notebook A, 39
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