Description: Four adjoining fragments (together w: 0.45 × h: 0.47 × d: 0.24) of a white marble statue base shaft, with panels within moulded edges on at least three sides; The lower part of the shaft and the upper right corner are lost.
Text: i: on the panel to the right. ii: Inscribed on the front panel, which has a rough but deep groove down the left side of the text. The last letter of line 3 is cut on the moulding.
Letters: i: Perhaps second century CE; 0.018. ii: Average 0.03; irregular, clear-cut; lunate sigma and epsilon
Date: i: second century; ii: First half of the fourth century. (lettering, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church; probably re-used in the Byzantine bema barrier; fragments found in N. Odeon V at 0.78 and 0.63.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Main fragment at findspot; other fragments in Museum (1977).
Apparatus
1: Cormack wrongly indicated space for letters above this line.
6: Ϲ̣Ι̣Β̣Ο̣Α̣Ι̣ Kubitschek, June 1893; Ϲ̣Ι̣Β̣Ο̣Α̣ Calder, 1934; [ἐ | γερ] ϲ̣ι̣βό̣[αι] MAMA 8; Robert rejected the MAMA reading; ἀμ]ειβόμ̣[ενοι Drew-Bear, 1980
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(ii): The Carians set up (scil. a statue of) this great governor, Helladios, making a return for his great virtue.
German translation
Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
(ii): Diesen hier, den Statthalter Helladios, den mit Grossen Tugend, haben die Karer, Dank erstattend, aufgestellt.
Commentary
Bibliography
Transcription: Main fragment Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.14, Abklatsch 12, Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1970, with three further fragments, 70.2, 70.6, 70.584.
Publication: ii: MAMA 8 531 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 157-158 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.404, , Drew-Bear, 1980 III with note, p.182, whence SEG 31.912, AE 1981.763 ; Roueché, 1979 175, note 9, whence SEG 29.1069, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1980.473; Roueché, ALA 16 and plate v, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 721, Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/14 , LSA 222; ALA 2004 16; i and ii: IAph2007 1.131.
Images
Fig. 1. i: Fragment from left edge, lines 2-3 (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. ii: Assembled fragments (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. ii: Fragment from right edge , lines 1-3 (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. ii: Fragment from right edge, from line 4 (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 5. ii: Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 6. ii: Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 7. Drawing by Kubitschek, K.V.14