Description: Fragment of a white marble block, damaged above, to the left and below (w: 0.47 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.20).
Text: Inscribed on the face within a moulded panel.
Letters: Second to third centuries A.D; 0.02
Date: Second to early third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 'N.E. Temenos corner, level 1'
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1-3: Something like . . .[τειμῆ]σ[αι δὲ καὶ τὸ]ν παῖδα [αὐτοῦ] may have stood in lines 1-3
Translation
. . . ] that his] son [be honoured] in a decree also after his death and for him too to be praised by the Council and the People [ . . .
Commentary
This is perhaps part of a decision of the Council that a father as well as his deceased son should be honoured; it probably concluded by urging the father to bear his loss with courage. For the combination of elements cf. 12.704a (=MAMA 512)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 66.223
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)