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Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Reynolds and Isik (2007).

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Description of Monument

White marble building blocks.

Description of Text

On the face of the walls.

Letters

Painted graffiti. a is upside down.

Date

Undateable

Edition
Προβάτου
Προβάτου
ΠΡΟΒΑΒΑΤΟΥ
Προβάτου
Προβάτου
Apparatus

Illegible traces of paint appear on several more blocks, as well as occasional single letters some of which were cut and not painted.

Translation

? Of Probatos

Commentary

The position of a shows that these texts were not intended for display here, and were presumably covered with plaster when the building was in use. The genitive case seems clear from b and c, so that it is plausible to take them as ownership marks of some kind - perhaps giving the name of a quarry owner or of the quarryman who cut them; this suggestion obviously raises unsolved problems relating to ancient systems for keeping a tally of work completed. If it is the case that this is a name it is, obviously, a Latin one transliterated into Greek; a number of such names were used at Aphrodisias, but I do not know of any other instance of this one.

Locations

Findspot Bouleuterion/Odeon, on the north face of the outer walls Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, 1967).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of the Bouleuterion/Odeon' in Ratté, forthcoming.

Photographs

Face (1976)
Face (1976)