Description: Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment, has lines 1-6 (w: 0.33 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.30); b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (w: 0.53 × h: 0.38 × d: 0.34); c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (w: 0.46 × h: 0.46 × d: 0.54).
Text: Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.
Letters: Lines 1-15, 0.025; lines 16-20, 0.022-0.023.
Date: A.D. 253-260 . (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema/chancel barrier wall
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum and findspot (1980).
Apparatus
1: [Ἡ πόλις/τὸν ἐπιφανέ/στατον/Καί/σαρα θεὸν/Πόπλι]ον Zaccaria, 1984
19: .. . ΩΝΕΚΤΟ Reinach, 1906; [τὸ τρίτ]ον ἐκγό|[νου αὐτοῦ MAMA 8
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[The city (scil. has honoured) ---]us Li[cinius] Va[lerian]us, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Neikomachos, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Neikomachos, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (scil. of the monument).
Bibliography
Transcription: b: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.18, Abklatsch 23; Gaudin, 1904, 48; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition with two further fragments (a and c)
Publication: Reinach, 1906 90 (fragment b) , MAMA 8 509 (fragment b) ; all fragments Roueché, 1981 3 , whence SEG 31.906 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.357 , AE 1981.767 ; Roueché, ALA 4 , whence Zaccaria, 1984, AE 1984.884; McCabe, PHI, 1996 211 , ALA 2004 4, Smith, 2006 H.33 (listed) IAph2007 1.189.
Images
Fig. 1. To left: a: Upper right corner (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. a: Upper right corner (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. a: Upper right corner (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 4. b: Centre right (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 5. c: Lower left corner (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 6. c: Lower left corner (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 7. c: Lower left corner (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 8. b. Kubitschek notebook V, 18