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Building inscription of reservoir

Type of monument:
Building inscription.
Location:
Sivaslı (Sebaste): in a street, from a recently demolished fountain.
Description:
Cornice-block of greyish-white crystalline marble, with decorated mouldings on the front and right-hand end.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.30; W. 1.16; Th. 0.71; letters 0.05.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/75).
Publication:
Ramsay, Phrygia II 605, no. 483 (from a copy by J. R. S. Sterrett); K. Kourouniotes, Ἡμερολόγιον τῆς Μεγάλης Ἑλλάδος 1925, 407 (non uidi); [BCH 48 (1924) 511 (‘dans la fontaine de Balarçeşmesi’); SEG 6, 181].
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

[. . ἡ Σεβαστην]ῶν πόλις τὸ ὑδρεῖον ἐκ τῶν ἰ-
[δίων πόρων - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]
...the city of the Sebastenoi built the reservoir from its own funds...

For the construction of reservoirs to feed a city’s fountains, see I.Perge 195; SEG 28, 871 (Ephesos); compare Sardis VII 1, no. 17. For the phrase ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων πόρων referring to a city’s revenues, compare IGR IV 615 (Temenouthyrai); MAMA XI 66 (1956/34: Dioskome).

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 67 (Sebaste 3: 1956-75)

Photograph of MAMA XI 67 (Sebaste 3: 1956-75)