Description: Two fragments from the shaft of a white marble statue base with moulding below. a. complete at left; b. joins to the right (w: 0.40 × h: 0.31 × d: 0.53), broken to right.
Text: Inscribed on one face; the last line is cut on the moulding
Letters: 0.025. Circle for stop.
Date: Perhaps first century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: apse, probably re-used in the south side of the Byzantine bema-rail
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: a. Museum (1977); b. findspot (1977)
Apparatus
3-4: [--- τοῦ πρώ] | του (?)
Translation
Marcus Aurelius Zenas [son of Zenas the son of Dionysios] the son of Apollonios undertook responsibility [for the erection of the monument?], ?he was a (?the chief) temple-builder [---]? his foster-brother.
Commentary
Cormack, Notes p.27, wrongly took a to be a fragment of 15.329
Bibliography
Transcription: a: Gaudin, 1904 29d; a and b: New York University expedition Temple 22, SBI 96
Publication: a: Reinach, 1906 114 , Smith, 2006 H.196 (listed); IAph2007 1.118.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Fragment b (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 3. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1977)