Description:
White marble architrave block; fragment (W. 0.83 × H. 0.45 × depth not recorded) survives.
Text:
Inscribed on two fasciae.
Letters:
0.095
Date:
Late first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, West: on central stretch of west wall, south of 12.911 (=MAMA 419).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Sherard in 1705, (10101, 39); fragment recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2754, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 80; reference at A&R 150, no.5.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ··] τὸ πρόδομον Ἀρτεμίδω̣ρος Μύ[?ωνος ·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ·· Ἀ]πολλών<ι>ος Ἀρτεμιδώ̣ρου οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτο[ῦ ·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]ΤΟΠΡΟΔΟΜΟΝΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ·ΡΟΣΜΥ[···· - - - ]
2[ - - - ·]ΠΟΛΛΩΝΟΣΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ·ΡΟΥΟΙΥΙΟΙΑΥΤΟ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
τὸ
πρόδομον
Ἀρτεμί
δ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ω
</unclear>
ρος
Μ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ωνος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
πολλών
<supplied reason="omitted" >
ι
</supplied>
ος
Ἀρτεμιδ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
ρο
υ
οἱ
υἱοὶ
αὐ
το
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

Highlighted letters on the fragment recorded in 1975.

l.1, ΟΡΟΣ Sherard

l.2, ΟΡΟ̣Υ Sherard; ΟΡΟ̣Ν Boeckh

Translation:

. . . ]the ?porch; Artemidoros son of Mu[on ? . . . and ? son of Artemidoros . . and] Apollonios son of Artemidoros, his sons [ . . .

Commentary:

For the possibility that this structure should be associated with the Temple of Aphrodite see Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39.

For the terminology, see word index.

Photographs:

Right end fragment (1975)
 Right end fragment (1975)
Right end fragment (1994)
 Right end fragment (1994)

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