“Pediment block with raking cornice found in association with fragments of an early imperial temple tentatively identified as a sanctuary of the imperial cult” (SEG). The letters “are finished with the same preliminary tooling as the rest of the surface.” “There is a rough, broken (rather than worked) lump projecting from the surface…some kind of attached pedimental sculpture or ornament” (AJA 90, p. 55).

“C. Foss, ibidem 63–68, suggests that the block could have been part of a pediment supporting sculptures which symbolized the centers of conventus in the province of Asia, as Adramyttion was.…As L. Robert (Hellenica VII 206–38) has demonstrated…the conventus could play a role in the organization of the imperial cult of the province. Foss tentatively identifies the building with a provincial temple for Vespasian, since a tetrastyle temple appears on Sardian coins of this emperor” (SEG); see P. Herrmann, Chiron 23 (1993), p. 251 n. 60, and Burrell, Neokoroi, pp. 101–3.

The block is only half-finished; on the preliminary character of the letters see the lemma. The spelling -τηον instead of -τ(ε)ιον might point to a later date.