Description:
A white marble revetment panel, re-used in the flooring of the baths.
Text:
In its present position the inscription is difficult to see, and l.6 is truncated.
Letters:
Irregular, careful and very ornate: 0.035-0.05.
Date:
Fourth-fifth century A.D. (context, content)
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: in an inner chamber - perhaps the caldarium.
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths.Last location in antiquity: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 190 whence PHI 675.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross v. cross
2 [[[·· c. 8 ··]]]
3 [[[·· c. 10 ··]]]
4 cross τόπος Ἐπικτήτου cross
5 κανψαρίου leaf
6 cross
1 cross   cross
2 [[[········]]]
3 [[[··········]]]
4 cross ΤΟΠΟΣΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΥ cross
5ΚΑΝΨΑΡΙΟΥ leaf
6 cross
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<g type="cross" />
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<g type="cross" />
τόπος
Ἐπικτήτου
<g type="cross" />
<lb n="5" />
κανψαρίου
<g type="leaf" />
<lb n="6" />
<g type="cross" />
</ab>

Translation:

Place of Epiktetos, cloakroom-attendant.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.10.

Photographs:

Face (1972)
 Face (1972)

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