Description of Monument

Rather crude white marble altar with very simple moulding above and below (0.25 × 0.62 × 0.25).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Letters

0.015-0.017; partly in counter-relief; poorly cut and shaped. Square and lunate epsilon. ΝΗ in ligature, l. 1.

Date

Perhaps third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)

Edition Διωγένης μετὰ Τατιάς Κούρῃ Πλυαρει εὐχήν

Apparatus

The counter-relief makes the readings often difficult; it would be possible to argue for Διιωγένης and Παπίας.

Translation

Diogenes with Tatias to the Koure of Plyara.

Commentary

This seems likely to be one of the earliest inscriptions from the site. The letters are atypical but could be of the second century B.C. (though also much later). The deity (presumably Kore, the maiden) is described by an ethnic adjective relating her to a city known only from a text, probably of the second century B.C. (ὁ δῆμος ὁ Πλυαρέων in 2.506 (=BE 1973.398)), found at Aphrodisias; it must certainly have been a nearby place and to some the evidence suggests that it may have been Aphrodisias under an earlier name. This inscription can be taken to support this view.

Locations

Found: Theatre: N. Analemma, during destruction of Mosque. ; Original location: Unknown ; Last known location: Museum (1975)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.28)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1975)