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Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Fragment from the right end of a white marble architrave block (0.835 × 0.32 × 0.56).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Letters

0.0775-0.09

Date

Late first century B.C. (lettering)

Edition τὸ ἐπιστύλιον τῶι Δήμωι
Translation

the epistyle and the decoration on it for the People.

Commentary

This is one of a group of such texts, 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..

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

Locations

Walls, South-east (Reichel) Unknown Findspot (1934)

History of Recording

Copied by Reichel (R I.22b); recorded by the MAMA expedition. Not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 440, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 116. Cormack thought this likely to be a fragment of 12.405 (=CIG 2752).

Representations

Reichel notebook, I.22