Description:
Several fragments, some joining, from a series of white marble revetment panels, H. 0.36 high.
Text:
Inscribed in one line.
Letters:
0.26; lunate omega; broad, flat trenches, painted black.
Date:
Fourth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: during excavation
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths
Last recorded location:
Museum (1972).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (Baths 11).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 48, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 597.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
a
1[·· ? ··]Ι̣ Ἰωάνν̣[·· ? ··]
b
1[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣ς ἀνα[νεωσ·· ? ··]
c
1[·· ? ··]Υ̣ΛΑΡ scroll [·· ? ··]
a
1[ - - - ]·ΙΩΑΝ·[ - - - ]
b
1[ - - - ]··ΣΑΝΑ[···· - - - ]
c
1[ - - - ]·ΛΑΡ scroll [ - - - ]
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
Ἰωάν
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΙ
</unclear>
</orig>
ς
ἀνα
<supplied reason="lost" >
νεωσ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
λαρ
</orig>
<g type="scroll" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

c. perhaps [βο]υλαρ[χος]

Translation:

a. [·· ? ··] Ioannes [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··] ?renewing [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IV.37.

Photographs:

a: Face (1972)
 a: Face (1972)
b: Face (1972)
 b: Face (1972)

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