Description: White marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides, the moulding extensively damaged, broken at the back (w: 0.52 × h: 1.24 × d: 0.49). There is a clamp-hole on the top, and a groove down the left side.
Text: Inscribed on the front panel (die, w: 0.35 × h: 1.075). The text must have begun on a crowning feature, now lost.
Letters: 0.025; apices on first Ι, line 7, second Ε, line 11.
Date: Third century CE (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: re-used in the north side of the bema/chancel barrier, at east end.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1994)
Apparatus
The first line must have been cut on an upper moulding.
Translation
[The council and the people honoured?] Aurelia Apphia daughter of Epiktetos Ganymedes(?) son of Teuthonos son of Hermogenes son of Zenon, priestess of Artemis, for her outstanding conduct of the cult and for the distinguished(?) and good way of life.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Temple 14; SBI 92
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.229 (listed); IAph2007 1.186.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Top (M. Roueché, 1994)
Fig. 3. Left side (M. Roueché, 1994)