<rs type="textType">Letter</rs> from Gordian III (fragment)

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Fragment of white marble without edges (0.17 x 0.23 x 0.09).

Description of Text

Two texts inscribed on the face: line 1 from the first, lines 2 ff from the second.

Letters

second to third centuries A.D.; ll. 1-3, 0.022; l.4, 0.025; ll. 6-7, 0.02.

Date

238-244 A.D. (reign, lettering)

Edition αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Γορδιανὸς Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστὸς Ἀφροδεισιέων τοῖς ἄρχουσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν λεωσ ωρεω κατ
Translation

Reference to Gordian III.

Commentary

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 139-140.

Locations

Theatre: north parodos area Theatre: north parodos wall Museum

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.11)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, A&R 23 and 24 whence SEG 32, 1982.1097, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 58 .

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