<rs type="textType">Building inscription</rs> of Artemidoros Muon

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble architrave block; fragment (0.83 × 0.45 × depth not recorded) survives.

Description of Text

Inscribed on two fasciae.

Letters

0.095

Date

Late first century B.C. (lettering)

Edition τὸ πρόδομον Ἀρτεμίδωρος Μύωνος Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀρτεμιδώρου οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ
Apparatus

Highlighted letters on the fragment recorded in 1975.

l.1, ΟΡΟΣ Sherard

l.2, ΟΡΟΥ Sherard; ΟΡΟΝ Boeckh

Translation

. . . ]the ?porch; Artemidoros son of Mu[on ? . . . and ? son of Artemidoros . . and] Apollonios son of Artemidoros, his sons [ . . .

Commentary

For the possibility that this structure should be associated with the Temple of Aphrodite see Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 39.

For the terminology, see word index.

Locations

Walls, West: on central stretch of west wall, south of 12.911 (=MAMA 419).Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Copied by Sherard in 1705, (10101, 39); fragment recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2754, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 80; reference at A&R 150, no.5.

Photographs

Right end fragment (1975)
Right end fragment (1994)