Description: Four joining fragments (together w: 0.56 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.40) from a white marble masonry block with upper and lower surfaces surviving, but with the upper part of the front face broken away; the block is broken at either end.
Text: Inscribed on the face; it is likely that the text occupied at least one more adjacent block in a composite monument.
Letters: av. 0.07, omicron 0.055; deep, clear and ornate; lunate.
Date: Fifth/sixth century (content, metre).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, South aisle.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[---]icleia [---] whom(?) Envy, having snatched away [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1961.
Publication: Roueché, ALA 159 and plate xxxvii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 740 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/91 , ALA 2004 159, IAph2007 1.195.
Images
Fig. 1. Right end fragment (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)