Description: Seven adjoining fragments of a white marble base.
Text: Inscribed on the face within a moulded panel
Letters: 0.0275-0.03
Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: in the area of the bema/chancel barrier, where the base was most probably re-used
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
The letters highlighted were on fragment b, seen by Gaudin but not reported subsequently.
Translation
The Council and the People honoured with the finest honours, Aurelia Kelesteina, wife of M. Aurelius Gaitulikos freedman and procurator of the Augusti, most worthy flower-bearer of the goddess and daughter of the city.
Bibliography
Transcription: a and c (lines 1-7): Gaudin, 1904, 48 (complete); Calder, 1934 (a only); New York University expedition, SBI 102. b (lines 6-9): Gaudin, 1904, 29. d (lines 7-9) e (lines 10-13), f (lines 15-16) and g (ends of lines 13-15): New York University expedition Temple 55, SBI 105
Publication: a: Reinach, 1906 87; MAMA 8 515 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 251 . b: Reinach, 1906 111 , Smith, 2006 H.238, H 251 (listed); all fragments IAph2007 1.183.
Images
Fig. 1. Assembled fragments (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Fragment c (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. Fragment e (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 4. Fragment e (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 5. Fragment g (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 6. Fragment g (M. Roueché, 1977)