Description:
White marble block (W. 0.38 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.26).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.045
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Martyrion, apparently re-used in the inner narthex wall
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by K&R (no notebook entry); by Gaudin (165); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 288-289, no 188, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 471.
Text constituted from:
Publication; Gaudin's squeeze (red book 45v); Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1Ἔλπιδες[?·· ? ··]
2Εἰδαίου[?·· ? ··]
2a[?·· ? ··
1ΕΛΠΙΔΕΣ[? - - - ]
2ΕΙΔΑΙΟΥ[? - - - ]
2a[?·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἔλπιδες
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap01" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
Εἰδαίου
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap02" dim="right" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap03" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Translation:

Elpides [... ? ...] (?son of) Eidaios [?...]

Commentary:

Reinach suggested tentatively that this might be funerary.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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