Description:
Archive wall: fragment (W. 0.075 x H. 0.135 x D. 0.015) with top edge surviving.
Text:
Inscribed on the face. A line has been scored between lines 2 and 3.
Letters:
second to third centuries A.D.; 0.023.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Theatre, north parodos, fallen.
Original Location:
Theatre: north parodos wall.
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.311)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, Appendix I, A.2, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 47 .
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 [·· ? ··]ΡΟ[·· ? ··]
2 [·· ? ··] Ι̣Ε[·· ? ··]
3 [·· ? ··]ΔΙΑ[·· ? ··]
3a [·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]ΡΟ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]·Ε[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]ΔΙΑ[ - - - ]
3a[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ρο
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
δια
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 144-146. The letter sizes and spacing suggest that this may come from 519.

Photographs:
none.

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