Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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207. Place inscription of Heptamenius et al.

Description

• Monument: White marble column base.
• Text: Cut along upper rim.
• Letters: Lightly cut and very irregular; av. 0.03.
• Date: ?Late imperial (position)

Text

Translation

Place of Heptamenius and (?his) wife.

Apparatus

Reinach read at the end ΚΕΠΛΝ whence Grégoire restored κὲ π[α]ν[?τὸς τοῦ γένους...]

Photographs

Face (1988)	View from east (2004)

Commentary

See discussion at XI.16.

Locations

• Found: Tetrapylon: on the base of the the second standing column from the south, in the westernmost colonnade. This face is now to the east—that is, facing inwards; but this may be the result of the reconstruction of the Tetrapylon in the late fourth century. See plan 4.
• Original: Findspot.
• Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

• Recording: Recorded by Gaudin (68); by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by Reinach, no. 216, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 267; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 207 and plate xliii, whence PHI 677.
• Text constituted from: Publications; transcription (Roueché).

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