Description:
A fragment of white marble revetment panelling, with only lower edge surviving (W. 1.40 × H. 0.31.
Text:
Inscribed in one line on the face.
Letters:
Truncated, visible height 0.19; tall, ornate, with triangular trenches. Scroll for abbreviation.
Date:
Fourth/fifth/sixth century (lettering, nomenclature).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: re-used, upside down, as edging to a pool.
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1976).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 51, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 600.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··] v. ἐπὶ Φλ(αβίου) Η[·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ] ΕΠΙΦΛΗ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἐπὶ
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αβίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<orig n="unresolved" >
η
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] under Flavius E[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IV.37.

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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