12.718. ?Place inscriptions of Leon and Philippos
- 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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Λεο
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ν
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τ
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ο
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Φιλίππ
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ου
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ϛ
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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)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Reichel (1893), notebook 1, page 20
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