Description: White marble statue base upper plinth, with moulding on three sides and roughed out, but not completed, on the back (w: 0.36 × h: 1.20 × d: 1.03) There is a clamp hole on the underside for an attachment; the top is not currently visible. The plinth supported the statue of Aphrodite now in the Aphrodisias Museum.
Text: Inscribed on the lower fascia (w: 0.865 × h: 0.085). The stone is complete except for chipping at the upper right corner and along edges; the text must have been completed on a lower feature.
Letters: Well-cut, with elaborate serifs; 0.075
Date: Late second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, in the cavea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Excavation house (1993)
Translation
Goddess Aphrodi[te ---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, SBI 119, Odeon 17)
Publication: IAph2007 2.109; Reynolds, 2008b 3, whence SEG 58.1159.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. View (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 3. Face and underside (M. Roueché, 1992)