12.415. Monumental fragment of building dedication
- 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>
</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"
/>
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:
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