11.66. Dedication by Flavius Eusebios

Description:
Two adjoining pieces of a white marble panel / ?masonry block, which is slightly concave (together, H. 1.35 × W. 0.53 × D. 0.24).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Square-cut, but with some late forms (kappa, rho and sigma); 0.03.
Date:
Second quarter of the fourth century (titulature).
Findspot:
City, Village: in excavation of Museum area.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1994).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1974 (74.262).
Bibliography:
Published by •Reynolds and Tannenbaum, 136-137, no. 9, whence SEG 1997.851, BE 1988.888; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 10, and plate iv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 606.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 [[[·]]] `Θε´ [[[·]]]ῷ ἐπηκόῳ Φλ(άβιος)
2Εὐσέβιος ἀπὸ πριμι -
3πιλαρίων ἐκ τῶν
4τοῦ θεοῦ δομάτων
5τὸ πρῶτον καὶ τρίτον
6διάστυλον ἐποίησεν.
1 [[[·]]]ΘΕ[[[·]]]ΩΕΠΗΚΟΩΦΛ
2ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΣΑΠΟΠΡΙΜΙ
3ΠΙΛΑΡΙΩΝΕΚΤΩΝ
4ΤΟΥΘΕΟΥΔΟΜΑΤΩΝ
5ΤΟΠΡΩΤΟΝΚΑΙΤΡΙΤΟΝ
6ΔΙΑΣΤΥΛΟΝΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ
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Θε
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</del>
ῷ
ἐπηκόῳ
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<abbr>
Φλ
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άβιος
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Εὐσέβιος
ἀπὸ
πριμι
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πιλαρίων
ἐκ
τῶν
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τοῦ
θεοῦ
δομάτων
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τὸ
πρῶτον
καὶ
τρίτον
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διάστυλον
ἐποίησεν
.
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, ΘΕ is cut over an erasure of c. 4 letters.

Translation:

To God who listens, Fl(avius) Eusebios, e primipilaribus, from the gifts of God made the first and third intercolumniation.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 II.21.

Photographs:

Left part (1980)
 Left part (1980)
Left part (1980)
 Left part (1980)
Right part (1980)
 Right part (1980)
Assembled (1981)
 Assembled (1981)
Assembled (1994)
 Assembled (1994)

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