Description of Monument

Plain white marble block, cut away at the top and at the left side; the right end is covered by a block of the city wall at right angles to this short stretch. There is a clamphole with a channel leading up to the lower edge in the left corner sector. (0.46 × 0.63 × depth not measurable)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the visible face.

Description of Letters

0.025-0.03; slightly elaborated β.

Date

First to second century A.D. (lettering).

Edition ε Φλαβία Ἀπφία γυνὴ Φλαβίου Μιθριδάτου Ἀ γαθοῦ θυγατὴρ Μηνοδότου Βραβέως

Apparatus

l. 5, The two marks given as 'leaf', may just be elaborate stops.

Translation

Flavia Apphia wife of Flavius Mithradates son of Agathos, daughter of Menodotos son of Brabeus

Commentary

This text was one of a group cut on a family tomb, elements of which were incorporated into the walls at the South-East Gate of the city: 12.410 (=MAMA 462), 13.302 (= MAMA 474, 475, 476), and this text. The group is published and discussed by Reynolds, , (Vienna 1999), 327-334.

Locations

Found: Walls, South-east Gate: reused in a west-facing stretch of wall at a right angle to the west end of the façade of the tomb. Original location: In the monumental tomb at the East Gate. Last recorded: Findspot.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition (Walls 151).

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, , (Vienna 1999), 327-334, B.4, whence SEG 49 1999.1420 .

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Photographs

Face