Description of Monument
A marble block, broken above and to right (0.32 × 0.69 × 0.09).
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face; an iron clamp obscures part of the
text.
Description of Letters
'Schrift tief und bestimmt'; 0.025-0.05: dash for abbreviation;
stigma for ΣΤ; at end, Υ above ΤΟ.
Date
Seventh century or later.
Edition
ἐπισκόπου Στρατονικειας τοῦ
Translation
Tomb of so-and -so bishop of Stratonicaea.
Commentary
See discussion at IX.37.
Found
Karaçasu: re-used in a fountain: 'Brunnen':
'heute zu einem Brustungsstein umgearbeitet'.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot (1893).
History of Recording
Copied by Kubitschek (K.III.2, Abklatsch 97);
not reported subsequently.
Bibliography
Published from Kubitschek by Cormack (1964), no. 2, and p. 18, whence Robert (1966), 381 n. 4,
Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 167; not in PHI.
Text Constituted From
Publications; Kubitschek notebook.
Representations
Transcription by Kubitschek (1893)
notebook 3, p.2
Category of Text
funerary.
Category of Monument
masonry block.