Description: Four joining fragments of a low white marble base (w: 1.10 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.25); . On top are traces of the lost statuary; on the right the socle of an attached column, on the left a socket.
Text: Inscribed face w: 0.98 × h: 0.18
Letters: 0.025-0.03
Date: Perhaps first century BCE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: b. and c. Temple/Church Sector T.XIV, Stratum 1; a. Place of Palms/South Agora: in stonepile, North portico (west).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
Apparatus
2: The name of the goddess was probably erased in the Christian period.
Translation
Artemidoros son of Artemidoros the son of Apol[lonios] to [? the goddess] Aphrodite, (the statuary) which Artemidoros [?son of Apollonios] promised.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition over several years (c: 62.95, b: 62.96, a: 74.274)
Publication: Reynolds, 1982 26 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.386 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 153 ; IAph2007 1.109.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1974)
Fig. 2. Fragment a. (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Fragments a. and b. (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. Fragment c (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 5. Fragments b, c and d (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 6. Assembled (M. Roueché, 1978)