11.407. Building dedication to Aphrodite
- Description:
- White marble architrave block (W. 2.24 × H. 0.405 × D. 0.636) with cornice and three fasciae (0.125, 0.10 and 0.01), and face and simple intercolumniar decoration below.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the uppermost fascia.
- Letters:
- 0.095–0.10.
- Date:
- Late first century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, South-west: re-used in a field wall west of the Hadrianic Baths
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1988)
- History of discovery:
- Part copied by Kubitschek (K iii.47, Abklatsch 40). Found again by the NYU expedition (catalogue no. 88h).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, fromKubitschek, 27, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 136; mentioned L. Robert, Ant. Class (1966) 391.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); notebooks; publication. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 v. τὴν στοὰν Ἀφρ̣[οδίτῃ ·· ? ··]
- 1 ΤΗΝΣΤΟΑΝΑΦ·[····· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
τὴν
στοὰν
Ἀφ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
οδίτῃ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
K&R did not read anything before the first Ν
Translation:
[·· ? ·· dedicated] the stoa to Aphr[odite ·· ? ··]
Commentary:
There is no indication, at present, from which structure this block may have come.
Photographs:
- Stone (1988)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek III, 47
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