12.505. Building dedication to Demos

Description:: White marble architrave block, complete (W. 2.53 × H. 0.42 × depth not measurable) with a very simple single moulding above
Text:: Inscribed on the face. The spacing of the text suggest that the block is from a composite monument.
Letters:: 0.05-0.06 (omicron 0.035)
Date:: Late first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:: Walls, South-east: On ye east by south side, to ye south of ye gate (Sherard). Found re-used in the southern stretch, near excavated area, a little west of 12.523 (=MAMA 549)
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:: Copied in 1705 by Sherard (10101, 12) and by Picenini (10102, 15 and, from Tisser, 74); copied by Wood (14, f.45); copied by Deering (12v, no. 41); copied by Fellows; copied by Waddington; noted by Reichel (I, 24v); recorded by Gaudin (138); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition (MB)
Bibliography:: Published by Boeckh, from Sherard papers, 2751; published by Fellows, 15, whence Bailie 70; published by Waddington, LBW 1590; published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 129; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 439, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 84.
Text constituted from:: Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; Reinach; publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).

1Ἑρμογένης Ἑρμογένους τὸ ἐπιστύλιον

2 καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι

1ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΗΣΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΕΠΙΣΤΥΛΙΟΝ

2ΚΑΙΤΟΝΕΠ'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΩΙΔΗΜΩΙ

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Ἑρμογένης

Ἑρμογένους

τὸ

ἐπιστύλιον

καὶ

τὸν

ἐπ'

αὐτοῦ

κόσμον

τῶι

Δήμωι

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Translation:

Hermogenes son of Hermogenes, 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).