<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> relief for anonymous, emporiarch

Joyce M. Reynolds 1997

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Originally published in Reynolds (1997).

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Description of Monument

White marble relief stele of irregular shape (a rectangle without its lower left corner) chipped along all adges and sporadically over the face (0.29 × 0.40 × 0.06). The upper part carries a male portrait bust in high relief, the head almost in the round as it rises above the upper edge of the stele. See further Smith. loc. cit.

Description of Text

Inscribed on either side of the head (ll. 1-5) and below the bust (ll. 6-7). The first two lines to the left of the head have been erased.

Letters

0.022, but heights vary; lunate sigma, omega.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition
To left of headἐνποριαρχης
To right of head τῇ συντεχνίᾳ τῶν λινουργῶν Below bust καὶ τοῖς παρόsic δοις χαιρει
Translation

[So-and-so ], market-supervisor, greets the association of linen-workers and the passers-by.

Commentary

See discussion by Reynolds, art. cit.

Locations

Walls, South (east part) Museum, on display (1975) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.22)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, The Linen-market of Aphrodisias in Caria in Arculiana, H. Bögli Festschrift, 523-8; by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Relief 2

Photographs

Face (1975)

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