Description:
Two adjacent white marble masonry blocks.
Text:
i on the block to the left, ii on that to the right, which is cracked.
Letters:
c. 0.045; scroll and apostrophe for abbreviation.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries A.D., or later (content)
Findspot:
Walls, South (west part): south face, on the east face of a bastion some way west of 12.541; .
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Reichel (9 June 1893, R.I.20); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Grégoire, IGC. 257ter, from Reichel; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 211 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 781, 787.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
i
1 cross
2 Λεον̣-
3το v.
ii
1 cross Φιλίππ(ου) ϛ
i
1 cross
2ΛΕΟ·
3ΤΟ 
ii
1 cross ΦΙΛΙΠΠϛ
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<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<lb n="2" />
Λεο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
τ
<unclear reason="undefined" >
ο
</unclear>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Φιλίππ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ου
</supplied>
</expan>
ϛ
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

Grégoire read these as one consecutive text, and read the first name as Μ[αθε]ου.

Translation:

i. (?Place of) Leon.

ii. (?Place of) Philippos.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.17.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

Representations:

Transcription by Reichel (1893), notebook 1, page 20
 Transcription by Reichel (1893), notebook 1, page 20

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