12.406. Building dedication to Demos

Description:
White marble architrave block (W. 2.66 × H. 0.365) with moulding above chipped away for re-use.
Text:
Inscribed on one fascia.
Letters:
0.06
Date:
Late first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east Gate: reused, with 12.407 and 12.408 (=MAMA 443,444), to form a course in the walls, just north of the gate, below 12.403 (=MAMA 463)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (13); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 131; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 442, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 118.
Text constituted from:
Publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1[·· ? ··] καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι
1[ - - - ]ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠ'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
καὶ
τὸν
ἐπ'
αὐτοῦ
κόσμον
τῶι
Δήμωι
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ·· the epistyle] and the decoration on it for the People.

Commentary:

This is one of a group of such texts,almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405 (=CIG 2752), 12.503 (=LBW 1589), 12.504 (= LBW 1591), 12.505 (=MAMA 439), 12.506 (=MAMA 440), 13.503 (=MAMA 441), 12.406 (=MAMA 442), 12.407 (=MAMA 443), 12.408 (=MAMA 442), 12.404 (= Reinach 127 and 128).

The group discussed byReynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39..

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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