<rs type="textType">Building dedication</rs> to Aphrodite and emperors

Joyce M. Reynolds 1980

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Originally published in Reynolds (1980).

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Description of Monument

13 white marble architrave blocks (each 2.84 × 0.29 × 1.04) which consist of cornice and three fasciae. On one block, on the top, a gameboard was cut.

Description of Text

Inscribed only on the uppermost fascia.

Letters

0.095

Date

A.D. 14/29 (reign)

Edition
Ἀφροδίτηι καὶ Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Θεῶι Σεβαστῶι Διὶ Πατρῴωι καὶ Ἀυτοκράτορι Τιβερίωι Καίσαρι Θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ υἱῶι Σεβαστῶι καὶ Ἰουλίαι Σεβαστῆι καὶ τῶι Δήμωι τὴν στόαν Διογένης Μενάνδρου τοῦ Διογένους τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου καὶ ἱερηα Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Μένανδρος
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Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

For the title see 12.902 (=MAMA 431); for discussion see Reynolds, 'Further Information', 110.

Locations

Original location: South Agora: Along the north side of the Portico of Tiberius Found: South Agora: at the west end of the Portico of Tiberius ; Last known location: on site

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publication.

History of Recording

Found by the Italian expedition in 1937; found again by the NYU expedition, with further fragments, 1986-8.

Bibliography

Published by Jacopi, MonAL 38, 1939, 86-96, 1, whence BE 1948.211; by Reynolds, PCPS 1980, 77-8, no. 6, whence SEG 1980.1244, AnnEpig 1980.870, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 104.

Photographs

Block d., part (1985)
Block d., part (1985)
Block f. (1985)
Block f. (1985)
Block g., left part (1985)
Block i. (1985)
Block k. (1985)
Fragment ii. (1985)
Gameboard (1985)
Gameboard close-up (1985)