Description: Rectangular white marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides in two large joining fragments (together w: 0.49 × h: 1.125 × d: 0.49) and one small fragment of lines 14-16 (w: 0.165 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.10);

Text: Inscribed on two adjacent faces. Face a, to the left, has broken moulding, and is broken down the left side. Face b is pitted to receive plaster. The moulding on face a survives at the upper edge; the text must therefore have begun on an upper feature. Traces of the plaster which covered the inscriptions when the stone was re-used are still adhering.

Letters: Face a: 0.02; apex on ΥΙ, line 5. Circular stops. Face b: 0.025; Π with a vertical line through the cross-bar, presumably ΠΙ in ligature, line 3.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: re-used on the north side of the Byzantine bema/chancel barrier, third base from east.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot; small fragment in Museum (1978).

Translation

a: [? The Council and the People] honoured with the finest and greatest honours Lucius Antonius Karpion Aurelianos, son of Hermes, a man whose ancestors were well-born and liturgists. He himself also undertook all the magistracies and liturgies ?that he could, and lived in a well-regulated and modest manner. Moreover he dedicated to the most sacred Council for the purpose of a permanent ?distribution the sum indicated in his act of dedication which was made in the sixth stephanephorate of Lucius Antonius Dometinos Diogenes, in the month Deios.

b: Appointed day for the distribution in the tenth month, 10 (denarii), to 80 people(?)

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