Description: Two adjoining fragments of the lower part of a white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels on at least three sides (w: 0.47 × h: 0.89 × d: 0.29).
Text: Inscribed on the face (surviving face w: 0.37 × h: 0.50). Fragment a. lines 1-11; b. line 12.
Letters: 0.03. Apices on first I, line 6; on I and first E, line 10.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church; re-used in the Byzantine bema.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[So and so honoured Aurelia Flavia Messoulia Diogeneia] flower-bearer, high priestess, daughter of Flavius Hephaistion and Moessouleia Satorneila, high priests, wife of Aemilius Hypsikles, high priest, knight, priest for life of Helios.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 48 (complete); Calder, 1934, (a only); New York University expedition, SBI 102, 103 (a and b).
Publication: Reinach, 1906 88 ; MAMA 8 516 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 250 , Smith, 2006 H.237 (listed); IAph2007 1.159.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1976)