Description: Upper part of a round-headed marble stele (w: 0.33 × h: 0.48 × d: 0.15), chipped on either side as well as cut away below; within the head is an incised olive wreath with pendant taenia that impinge on the body of the stele, above the text. There is a hole in the underside for attachment to a shaft below, which must also have been inscribed.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.015; circular letters small; theta with dot in centre; adscript iota.
Date: Perhaps third to second centuries BCE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 'Temenos I - III, dismantling water channel A'
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
With good fortune. The Aphrodisian priests(?) crown [...
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 65.293