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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble architrave block, complete (2.53 × 0.42 × depth not measurable) with a very simple single moulding above

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The spacing of the text suggest that the block is from a composite monument.

Letters

0.05-0.06 (omicron 0.035)

Date

Late first century B.C. (lettering)

Edition Ἑρμογένης Ἑρμογένους τὸ ἐπιστύλιον καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον τῶι Δήμωι
Translation

Hermogenes son of Hermogenes, the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.

Commentary

This is one of a group of such texts, almost all found re-used near the South-east Gate, dedicating an epistylion, with its decoration (kosmos) to the Demos: 12.405 (=CIG 2752), 12.503 (=LBW 1589), 12.504 (= LBW 1591), 12.505 (=MAMA 439), 12.506 (=MAMA 440), 13.503 (=MAMA 441), 12.406 (=MAMA 442), 12.407 (=MAMA 443), 12.408 (=MAMA 442), 12.404 (= Reinach 127 and 128).

The group discussed byReynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39..

Locations

Unknown Walls, South-east: On ye east by south side, to ye south of ye gate (Sherard). Found re-used in the southern stretch, near excavated area, a little west of 12.523 (=MAMA 549) Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; Reinach; publications

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Sherard (10101, 12) and by Picenini (10102, 15 and, from Tisser, 74); copied by Wood (14, f.45); copied by Deering (12v, no. 41); copied by Fellows; copied by Waddington; noted by Reichel (I, 24v); recorded by Gaudin (138); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition (MB)

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard papers, 2751; published by Fellows, 15, whence Bailie 70; published by Waddington, LBW 1590; published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 129; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 439, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 84.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Wood notebook 14, page 45
Deering notebook 12
Reichel notebook, I.24v (noted)