Description:
Two white marble blocks, from which an upper moulding has apparently been chipped away W. 1.42 × H. 0.38 × D. 0.43, cracked (perhaps broken) in two places.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.06
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east Gate: re-used in the north wall of the small vaulted chamber (? side-gate) at the the north side.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (120); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published, from Gaudin, by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 227, no. 135; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 598, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 520
Text constituted from:
Publications; transcription (Beard) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [···]ος scroll Πεδιέως τοῦ Πε[διέως] ···]
1[···]ΟΣ scroll ΠΕΔΙΕΩΣΤΟΥΠΕ[·····]···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
ος
<g type="scroll" />
Πεδιέως
τοῦ
Πε
<supplied reason="lost" >
διέως
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

. . . ]os, son of Pedieus, the son of ?Pe[dieus . . .

Commentary:

The text was regarded by Reinach as part of a monumental dedication, but figures in MAMA as funerary (persumably on the assumption that it was used in the wall of a tomb). The lettering and layout favour Reinach's view, and the room in which it is re-used is more probably a side chamber of the gate than part of a tomb.

The man named is otherwise unknown at present.

Photographs:

View (1975)
 View (1975)
Left end (1972)
 Left end (1972)
Centre (1972)
 Centre (1972)
Right end (1972)
 Right end (1972)

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